The Go Philippines Tour 2022, a multistage bikathon that may pedal for 16 legs over 22 days throughout the nation, will get happening Feb. 14 in Davao Metropolis.
The match marks the return of big-time biking within the pandemic period, with organizers providing a complete prize kitty of P10 million within the hopes of arising with a nationwide spectacle cyclists harking back to previous celebrated races such because the Tour of Luzon and the Marlboro Tour.
“We all know how our native biking followers and riders have been hungry to have one other massive biking competitors and that is our reply to that,’’ stated Go Philippines Tour occasion director Ric Rodriguez throughout the press launch Thursday evening on the Metropolis of Desires in Parañaque Metropolis.
Rodriguez stated the Tour will traverse the Jap seaboard of the archipelago with a fiesta ambiance in each end line that may assist increase the livelihood of native residents.
“We’re simply as excited with Rodriguez within the staging of this occasion that shall be anticipated by native riders and biking followers alike,’’ stated Go Philippines Tour chief govt officer Marian Romilyn Galanza.
90 cyclists
The races, that includes 90 cyclists from 15 groups representing numerous areas and provinces within the nation, may have stops in Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro, Tacloban Metropolis, Borongan Metropolis in Samar and Legazpi Metropolis in Bicol, passing via a number of high scenic and vacationer sights alongside the way in which.
“This can assist our native cyclists earn a residing whereas doing the game that they love after being out of significant competitors for 2 years,’’ stated 7Eleven Street Bike Philippines crew proprietor Bong Sual.
From Mindanao, Jap Visayas and Bicol, the Tour will go up North so far as Vigan in Ilocos Sur earlier than ending in Baguio Metropolis.
Rodriguez has tapped Malaysian Jamaludin Mahmoud, the person behind the world well-known Tour de Langkawi, because the chief commissar of the race.
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