2000 Dakar Rally also known as the 2000 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 22nd running of the Dakar Rally event. The event began in January 2000 in Senegal and ended in Cairo. It had been re-routed to avoid Mauritania following an armed robbery of competitors in the 1999 rally. A stage of the rally between Niger and Libya was cancelled following a reported terrorist threat. Competitors were airlifted from Niamey airport to Libya where the rally was restarted at Sabha. The rally was won by French drivers, Jean-Louis Schlesser and Henri Magne. The motorcycle title was won by Richard Sainct.
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“I ... once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks’ Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.”
—Anita Loos (1888–1981)