Dakar sixth stage cancelled due to extreme weather

Scouts sent out by organisers to check the 786km stage from the mining town of Oruro to La Paz reported steadily deteriorating terrain.

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Published 7 January 2017 11:00pm

Source: Reuters

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Friday's fifth stage had already been cut short due to bad weather, with Britain's Sam Sunderland leading the motorcycle standings on a KTM and French Peugeot driver Stephane Peterhansel on top in the car category.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)

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