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Officials call off sixth leg of Dakar Rally (AP)
Thursday, 05 January 2012

Toyota's driver Giniel De Villiers, from South Africa, and co-driver Dirk Von Zitzewitz, from Germany, compete in the  fifth stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Chilecito and Fiambala IN Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Prevost, Pool)AP - Officials called off the sixth leg of the Dakar Rally on Thursday due to dangerous, snowy weather conditions in the Andes, where drivers were to cross Friday from Argentina to the Chilean city of Copiapo.