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Vigo Indoor Enduro cancelled

The local organizer has announced the suspension of the third event in the World Championship due to “failure to comply with the commitment given by the Vigo City Hall” regarding the sponsoring of the event.

The FIM Indoor Enduro World Championship will therefore finally consist of three scoring events. Genoa (Italy), which has already taken place, Barcelona (Spain), which will be held 6th February, and Lisbon (Portugal), on the 5th March.

The organizer of what should have been the third event of the FIM Indoor Enduro World Championship has told the promoter and FIM that the race will be suspended due to insufficient economic guarantees. According to a statement from the organizer “the failure to comply with the commitment given by the Vigo City Hall regarding the sponsoring of the event, and the material impossibility of attaining another type of support which would make it possible, has obliged us to take this decision”.

The local organizer also regrets “the harm that this situation could cause”, saying that in the last weeks they have worked “very hard to attain the support which would have guaranteed the event. Unfortunately, this has not been possible”.

The next event in the 2011 FIM Indoor Enduro World Championship will take place in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona (Spain) on 6th February 2011, and the closing race will be in Lisbon (Portugal) on Saturday 5th March.

Alter the opening event held in Genoa (Italy), the FIM Indoor Enduro World Championship is headed by the Finnish rider Mika Ahola (HM-Honda), with 51 points, followed by the Swede rider Joakim Ljunggren (Husaberg), with 45, and the Polish rider Taddy Blazusiak (KTM), current champion, with 43. The Spanish rider Iván Cervantes, one of the main contenders for the title, was unable to score in Genoa due to an injury attained in the training rounds .