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Suspended the test of 10 Km for lack of security

26 October 2014 - 13: 20

The second edition of the athletics event of 10 km from Denia was suspended due to the lack of safety of participants.

A bizarre story wrapped this race that could not be performed. Ten minutes before the scheduled time for the same, the head of the local police responsible for ensuring the safety of the trial, admitted plotting it. He checked missing 39 points to be covered by the volunteers of the organization.

After this check informed the organization of the test it is to be incident could remedy. Those responsible for the race tried by all means to cover those points. While the athletes were nervous and upset about the delay in output. Many had adequate heating it already was of little use to them.

After an hour the organization reported that the problem had been solved. The Local Police went back over the route and verified that there were still crosses to be covered. After some conversations between the head of the Local Police, the Security Councilor himself, Javier Ygarza present at the starting line and the organization, it was the organizer himself who made the decision to suspend the race.

PA communicated by the race was suspended, unable to ensure the safety of athletes.
The reaction of the participants was mass protest against this situation and surprisingly came to cover the route. They did so in a personal capacity neutralized and the path without the supervision or control of a normal career.

The vast majority of participants showed their anger with the organization for not having taken into account the positions to be filled so that security was total. The race organization apologized to the runners and commented, » It was all planned, but we own volunteers, who have not appeared to cover positions where they had to be failed. I understand the position of the local police, and that is why I apologized to all participants«.

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