Talks are presently underway to take the shortened Tour of Britain Girls to Wales this June.
Sources advised Biking Weekly final week that discussions had been presently 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 presently in discussions, however no formal settlement or dedication has been reached at this level,” the spokesperson mentioned.
It is understood that comparable 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 areas 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 Girls, after the occasion was rebranded in home by the nationwide governing physique after the demise of the previous promoter of the Girls’s Tour, SweetSpot.
The ultimate version of the Girls’s Tour visited Wales for 2 phases. Levels 4 and 5 befell 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 happening to win the race general.
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 Girls’s Tour on the UCI calendar.
After each the Girls’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 optimistic negotiations going down with a wide range of stakeholders, nothing has been formally agreed relating to the placement of any potential phases as of but. The race additionally nonetheless lacks main industrial companions.
The nationwide federation has held two enterprise networking occasions in each London and Manchester in current 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 optimistic however nothing has as of but been formalised.
BC’s main occasions arm, headed up by Jonathan Day, is now formally answerable for staging each the boys’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.
