The Beirut International Marathon has been postponed because of the assassination of Pierre Gemayel.
The prominent cabinet minister, an anti-Syrian politician, was killed Tuesday in a suburb of Beirut.
"We are just postponing, not cancelling the marathon," marathon spokeswoman Zeina Dacache told reporters.
"He (Gemayel) was a good leader and it would be wrong for us to be seen celebrating our event. But we plan going ahead with it at a future date."