PHNOM PENH, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The 2014 Asia Cross
Country rally ended here Friday afternoon after 22 rally cars were
flagged off from Thailand's coastal city of Pattaya on Saturday last
week.
The 2,200km Thailand-Cambodia rally,
regarded as a grueling test of courage and endurance for both man and
machine, ended in Kampong Speu province and the rallyists made another
short trip to Phnom Penh for an award ceremony.
During
the week-long rally, participants from Cambodia, Japan, Thailand, South
Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, and China's Taiwan drove their
four-wheel vehicles from Pattaya beach through Sa Kaeo province and
crossed over Cambodia for the World Heritage Angkor Wat and raced
through Battambang province before reaching Kampong Speu province and
Phnom Penh. "It was the first time that Cambodian athletes joined the
automobile adventure, which was organized to promote international
goodwill and friendship among countries in Asia," said Vath Chamroeun,
secretary general of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia.
The
Asia Cross Country Rally, first held in 1996, is the largest Feddration
Internationale de l'Automobile-certified (FIA) cross country rally in
Asia. The rally route is designed to cover many types of terrain like
jungles, swamps river-crossings, dirty roads and so on.
Thai racers gained the championship and the second and third places.
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