Posted: November 22, 2006

Athletics: Beirut Marathon Postponed Due To Minister's Assassination

From David Monti

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Organizers of the BLOM Bank Beirut Marathon have been forced to postpone Sunday's race because of the shocking assassination of anti-Syrian minister and leader of the Maronite Catholic community, Pierre Gemayel. He was the fifth anti-Syrian member of the ruling government to die in the last two years. "We are just postponing not cancelling the marathon," Zeina Dacache a marathon spokesman told the British Press Association, journalist Dave Martin reported. "He was a good leader and it would be wrong for us to be seen celebrating our event but we plan going ahead with it at a future date." A new date for the race was not announced. Comment on this story. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest

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