cycling: New edition of the Friedensfahrt from May 1st
Things are looking up again. Many adults who grew up in the former GDR will still remember the fanfare of the Peace Race. Every year in May, the biggest cycling race in the communist world led through Poland, Czechoslovakia, and, of course, the GDR. For over a week, the heroes of the road determined how riders like Täve Schur, Bernhard Eckstein, and others would fare .