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Riders circle Iceland under midnight sun


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Reykjavik - Jens Thor Sigurdarson crosses the finish line exhausted and hungry yet invigorated: he's just completed a gruelling 1 358km three-day non-stop cycling race circling Iceland under the midnight sun.

"This was just about as difficult as I had expected," says the 37-year-old Icelander, his muscles aching and on the verge of collapse.

"The first thing I will do now is go home, get some sleep and have a good meal."

Sigurdarson and his team-mates have just finished the WOW Cyclothon, an annual race on Iceland's Route 1, the main ring road around the volcanic North Atlantic island.

Riders start in the capital Reykjavik and finish in Hafnarfjordur, just south of the start, covering flat and mountainous terrain.

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