Diplomatic 25K Bicycle Tour Highlights Shared Values, History

Ambassador Sterling leads the diplomatic 25K bike tour in honor of M.R. Stefanik (Embassy photo)

On July 19, Ambassador Sterling led a diplomatic peloton, with participants from the U.S., European and Asian embassies as well as the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on a twenty-five kilometer bicycle tour to commemorate Slovakia’s twenty-fifth anniversary as well as the 138th anniversary of the birth of Slovak hero M.R. Stefanik. Stefanik played a key role in the founding of the first Czechoslovak Republic in 1918; Ambassador Sterling remarked that “Stefanik is a great Slovak example of a person who had the courage to be free and to create an independent state for Czechs and Slovaks.”

Oslava 138. narodenín M.R. Štefánika

Ambassador Sterling leads the diplomatic 25K bike tour in honor of M.R. Stefanik (Embassy photo)
Ambassador Sterling leads the diplomatic 25K bike tour in honor of M.R. Stefanik (Embassy photo)
Ambassador Sterling lays a wreath at the memorial located at the site where Stefanik's airplane crashed in 1919 (Embassy photo)
Ambassador Sterling lays a wreath at the memorial located at the site where Stefanik’s airplane crashed in 1919 (Embassy photo)