Amateur race : Berlin's biggest cycle race Velothon cancelled

The cancellation came on Tuesday at 16.33 p.m., by Mail. The almost 10,000 participants of the Velothons Berlin were informed that the second largest German Anyone fails bike race this year.

Since 2008, the race took place in Berlin, in may or June. A fixed date, there had been in Hamburg at the Cyclassics never. As a kind of consolation offered to the previous year participants with a reduced starting place in the Hamburg race is the largest in Germany.

As Background, license to be called a dispute between the Hamburg-based company "Ironman" and the Berlin-based SCC. Ironman has been held for years in a variety of races in a number of European countries, the Cyclassics and the Velothon. This year, the Berlin race will be held for the first time from the SCC, i.e. the organizer of the marathon.

Both races were last offered in three track lengths of 60, 100 and 160 kilometers, the two longer distances, led by the southern surrounding area, namely through Ludwigsfelde. A big disappointment for drivers under the Berlin road. For weeks she had wondered, that no registration is possible.

According to the daily mirror should take place in the race first, in August, a week before Hamburg. Only recently was the appointment internally on the 23. June has been placed. In the case of the Berlin Traffic control, the organisers have announced that it will continue to 2020. Sure, this may be.

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