Talks are at present underway to take the shortened Tour of Britain Ladies to Wales this June.
Sources advised Biking Weekly final week that discussions had been at present being held between Wrexham County Borough Council and British Biking in relation to Wrexham internet hosting the beginning of the race on the second stage.
This was confirmed by Wrexham Council on Monday morning. A spokesperson for the council advised Biking Weekly that talks had been ongoing however no contracts had been inked as of but.
“The Council has been approached by British Biking and we’re at present in discussions, however no formal settlement or dedication has been reached at this level,” the spokesperson mentioned.
It is understood that related formal negotiations are being held by British Biking officers with Powys Council relating to the opening stage ending in Llandudno after beginning in mid-Wales. Potential places for the beginning of stage one embody each Welshpool and Newtown.
This yr will mark the primary event that British Biking has organised the Tour of Britain Ladies, after the occasion was rebranded in home by the nationwide governing physique after the demise of the previous promoter of the Ladies’s Tour, SweetSpot.
The ultimate version of the Ladies’s Tour visited Wales for 2 levels. Levels 4 and 5 came about within the nation with the latter ending on the Black Mountain within the Brecon Beacons. Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini took the stage earlier than occurring to win the race total.
A shortened model of the brand new BC managed race is because of happen in June on the same old dates occupied by the previous Ladies’s Tour on the UCI calendar.
After each the Ladies’s Tour and Tour of Britain had been introduced again below British Biking administration, BC CEO Jon Dutton admitted that the governing physique was in a “race in opposition to time” to stage the ladies’s race in the summertime.
Biking Weekly understands that regardless of constructive negotiations happening with quite a lot of stakeholders, nothing has been formally agreed relating to the situation of any potential levels as of but. The race additionally nonetheless lacks main business companions.
The nationwide federation has held two enterprise networking occasions in each London and Manchester in latest weeks in an try to draw potential sponsors for each the ladies’s and males’s races. The London occasion was held within the BAFTA constructing in Piccadilly.
It is understood that the general response to British Biking’s seek for potential sponsorship has been constructive however nothing has as of but been formalised.
BC’s main occasions arm, headed up by Jonathan Day, is now formally in command of staging each the lads’s and girls’s occasions, and the previous Ineos Grenadiers deputy principal, Rod Ellingworth, has been appointed the new race director for each races.
Biking Weekly approached British Biking for remark in relation to this story.
