FRANKFURT GP SAVED

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With German cycling on the brink of almost total collapse, it has emerged that the Frankfurt GP has been saved by public money.

The Frankfurt GP, more widely known as the Rund um den Henninger Turm, was due to be scrapped from the 2009 calendar after the sponsor withdrew in light of the numerous doping scandals to affect German cycling in recent years.

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