The has been a lot of subjectivity here, and both sides offer a perspective, but unless we hear directly from both sides of the tale directly, we are just repeating other people's opinions. It is interesting to hear from those that have been there though and it gives a good picture of what happens
I think the Dakar brings, not only money and employment to the areas where it travels, but also a great deal of positive possible tourist exposure and I'm sure it helps to bring communities together.
However, environmental damage to support a sport is not OK. Were living in the grown up world now where we need to balance our fun with not destroying important (and usually very niche) habitats.
I'm sure the Dakar organizers put in place a lot of effort to minimize damage. However, all those terrible lefties may be helping with their complaints, perhaps it will help the Dakar people to do even better, year on year? It's all a PR battle really!
In all, I think it is healthy to have an argument for no and yes, it brings about improvements. Keep it going, but I'm not that bothered, you have to look really hard on your TV to get it and if I've got to pay extra for TV......  !
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