TAGAYTAY – Just opened, Tagaytay CT Velodrome will pass its first major international competition – the Asian Bicycle Federation Champion.
“Just confirmed just now. We will host the Asian Championship next year,” said Abra, the Philippine Director and chairman of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC).Ham Tolentino at the inauguration ceremony of a country on Monday Racing or cycling tracks only.
Mr Tolentino nodded directly from Dato’Amarjit Singh Gill, president of the Asian Bicycle Federation.
Mr Singh Gill said he expects 350 drivers in 45 countries, including China and Japan, to see action in the race from March 25 to 31.
Paris Olympic double gold champion Carlos Yulo, along with city deputy mayor Agnes Tolentino, Cavite State Governor Athena Tolentino and Cavite Eighth District Councilwoman Aniela Tolentino and several National Sports Association officials, made the event a decades-long dream event.
“This is our dream 20 years ago,” said the mayor of Tacata.
National team midstream Ronald Oranza and Jermyn Prado are the first to ride a brand new track using the country’s track bike borrowed from the Thai Bicycle Association.
“We still don’t have track and field bikes, so I borrowed two bikes from Thailand,” Mr Tolentino said. He also said that Fircilin has now started forming a track and field team at the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand in December.
The event also coincides with the Olympic celebrations at POC, highlighted by the International Olympic Committee’s scholarships received by the Olympic Solidarity Movement.
Among the award winners, chess master Daniel Quizon and Janelle Mae Frayna and Carlos’ younger brother gymnast Karl Eldrew Yulo. – Joey Villar
