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Olympic Park to launch annual cycling event
Published:
30 January 2012
A two-day cycling festival, planned for summer 2013, is set to promote British cycling.
London & Partners announced that the proposed event will involve 70,000 participants on the first day and 35,000 on the second, including 200 world elite cyclists.
Dave Brailsford, British Cycling's performance director, said: "This will be great for London, great for cycling, and great for British Cycling."
It is hoped that the event will become an annual "London Marathon on wheels".
Mr Brailsford added that having almost 100,000 non-professional cyclists uniting for a weekend's festival every year would be "absolutely fantastic".
The race will start in the Olympic Park and finish on the Mall, as the marathon does, or at a nearby venue.
It will be the first post-London 2012 event to be held in the new Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
There are less than six months to go until the Olympic Games 2012 kicks off on July 27th.
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