diff --git a/src/control_backend/api/v1/endpoints/sse_ping.py b/src/control_backend/api/v1/endpoints/sse_ping.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 32d3805..0000000
--- a/src/control_backend/api/v1/endpoints/sse_ping.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-from fastapi import APIRouter, Request
-from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse
-import datetime
-import asyncio
-
-router = APIRouter()
-
-@router.get("/sse_ping")
-async def sse_ping(request: Request):
-    """
-    Endpoint for Server-Sent Events.
-    """
-    async def event_generator():
-        while True:
-            # If connection to client closes, stop sending events
-            if await request.is_disconnected():
-                break
-            
-            # Send message containing current time every second
-            current_time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
-            yield f"data: Server time: {current_time}\n\n" # \n\n is needed to separate events (SSE is text-based)
-            await asyncio.sleep(1)
-
-    return StreamingResponse(event_generator(), media_type="text/event-stream") # media_type specifies that this connection is for event streams
-
-
diff --git a/src/control_backend/api/v1/router.py b/src/control_backend/api/v1/router.py
index 68f047e..2a17ab5 100644
--- a/src/control_backend/api/v1/router.py
+++ b/src/control_backend/api/v1/router.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from fastapi.routing import APIRouter
 
-from control_backend.api.v1.endpoints import message, sse, sse_ping
+from control_backend.api.v1.endpoints import message, sse
 
 api_router = APIRouter()
 
@@ -12,9 +12,4 @@ api_router.include_router(
 api_router.include_router(
     sse.router,
     tags=["SSE"]
-)
-
-api_router.include_router(
-    sse_ping.router,
-    tags=["SSE_ping"]
-)
+)
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