Dakar 2008 - cancelled

Today something happened like never before.
Tusken raiders made cancelled one of the world's biggest sport happening, the A.S.O. decided that the 2008 Lisboa-Dakar Rally will be cancelled. It was known year by year that it's not safe for the drivers to cross Mauritania because of terror menace. And there have been killed french people on 24th. of last month. I say that safety is the most important (as they say in the official bulletin). But maybe they shouldn't make this decision in the last moment, when those long trainings, and the lot of money fly away. And we became lack of a great sport happening.
If they don't want this thing to take place in their country, then it shouldn't be there. Maybe plan a new route... I would be glad when I could see those machines as they rumbling across our little city. But it's just me, again. There's news in these days about that the 2010 show will start from Budapest. I hope it will be like that, andthat the Dakar Rally will exist then.

The piont is that it's pity for the 2008 Dakar Rally! Maybe in 2009...