Cycling Tour To Roll In February

After a successful organization of the 4th UCI

Africa Para-Cycling Championship 2011, the gear has shifted to yet another

blast display of pure cycling skills in next year’s ECOWAS Tour which will be

rolling from the Nigerian City of Lagos, through Benin, Togo, Ghana and finally

into La Cote D’Ivoire from the 13th to 20th February

2012.

Ghana made a quality mark in the first edition held 2 years

ago, with a narrow loss on the prestigious Yellow Jersey won by Team Burkina

Faso.

ECOWAS’ endorsement of this Tour is necessitated by the

sub-region’s guest to ensure border flexibility among member states.

In furtherance of this tour, a three member delegation headed

by the Vice-President of the Cycling Federation Mr. Teye Doku, Shaaban Mohammed

– Technical Director, DSP. Antwi- Ababio of Police MTTU and Sam Ayer of Ghana

Immigration were in Burkina Faso for the Technical briefing ahead of the event

next year.

Meanwhile, Ghana will be hosting the first ever Africa Commissaires

Course which will precede the ECOWAS Tour. The course is expected to feature

over 30 participants in Africa.

Dennis Kweku Moore

Director of Communication

Ghana Cycling Federation

Tel: +233 277452126/026056813

Email:

ghcyclingass@yahoo.co.uk/moorecycling@yahoo.com