Disappointment

We have been training and prepping our bikes for weeks now and was looking forward to rounds 1 and 2 of our local Desert X racing series. The race distance would be about 210 km's for each day. It was scheduled for this Friday and Saturday (29 & 30 October), however, it was cancelled due to the death of HH Sheikh Saqr Al Qassimi, ruler of Ras Al Khaimah and the minister of sport has cancelled all sporting events for the next five days. 

Now what bugs me is that even that the event has been cancelled people will still go out riding and having fun. Sport has been cancelled but not work..........? WTF