Organisers of the Bayern Rundfahrt have ended their efforts to find the €300,000 needed to keep the race afloat and have decided to pull the event from the 2016 calendar in hopes of reviving it the following year.
"It is a bitter decision after we had one of the most successful tours ever last May," race director Ewald Strohmeier said, according to Sport1.de. "In responsibility to our partners, and in particular with respect to the host cities and the teams that need to plan for the coming year, we had to make the decision now."
Strohmeier said the organisation would continue to work on building the race for 2017.
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The Bayern Rundfahrt was first run in 1980, and counted among its champions Jens Voigt, Geraint Thomas, Michael Rogers, and most recently Alex Dowsett. The German professional calendar is now without a stage race, having only the Hamburg Cycleassics, Garmin Velothon Berlin, Rund um Köln and Sparkassen Münsterland Giro one-day races.
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