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Your support makes all the difference.Argentina and Chile will for the third consecutive year host the Dakar Rally, organisers announced Tuesday.
"The 2011 Dakar will return to South America," said rally director Etienne Lavigne.
The rally will take place from January 1-16, 2011, with a start and finish in Buenos Aires, he said, with further details to be unveiled on April 29.
After staging the event 29 times in Africa between 1979 and 2007, the rally switched continents in 2008 because of security reasons.
The 2009 and 2010 editions of the rally have both also been staged in Argentina and Chile.
"It's a great pride for our country to once again welcome the Dakar," said Argentina's secretary of state for tourism, Carlos Enrique Meyer. "We have worked a lot for it."
Chile's Sports Minister Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle added: "As you know, some weeks back, Chile suffered one of the biggest earthquakes in the history of mankind.
"It's for that that I publicly thank ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation, the rally owners) for their help and understanding in talks."
Lavigne said that a return one day to Africa was not out of the question even though at the moment it was beyond them.
"It's complicated to hold Dakar over several countries in the current context."
Lavigne added that he and rally organisers continued to explore other possibilities, notably in Brazil and Peru.
"We are always on the look-out for what could be done in term of new things. We have some ideas about South America but in other countries as well."
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