China’s Tour of Hangzhou Pushed Back By One Year

UCI World Tour

PARIS, Aug 28, 2012 (AFP) - The Tour of Hangzhou, a new race added to the end of the WorldTour season, will not take place this year, organizers the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Tuesday. The race, which had been due to take place from October 17-21, immediately after the Tour of Beijing, retains "the ambition to be able to feature on the WorldTour calendar in 2013", … [Read more...]

China Awarded New WorldTour Race Tour of Hangzhou

PARIS, Feb 10, 2012 (AFP) - China will host a new round of cycling's WorldTour series, the Tour of Hangzhou, at the end of the season, world governing body UCI announced on Friday. The five-stage race will take place from Oct 17-21 in the city of 8.7 million people, which is close to Shanghai, and will follow the Tour of Beijing which has already been penciled in for Oct 10-14. The … [Read more...]