Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009 Winners Welcomed to Buenos Aires
AMBASSADOR WAYNE CONGRATULATES ARGENTINA ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DAKAR RALLY, January 18, 2008.
BUENOS AIRES -- A huge crowd welcomed to this capital on Sunday the winners and competitors in the Dakar Argentina-Chile 2009, the first race to be contested on Latin American soil and which concluded Saturday with the same level of enthusiasm that surrounded the portion of the world's toughest rally held here at the beginning of the month.
The more than 280 competitors who completed the 9,200-kilometer (5,700-mile) race through Argentine and Chilean territory were greeted with tremendous ovations by fans and onlookers as they moved around the podium set up at the La Rural fairgrounds in the northern part of Buenos Aires.