New French stage race planned for February
French local newspaper La Provence has unveiled its plans to hold a new three-day stage race in the region from February of next year. The event, to be known as the Tour La Provence, is pencilled in to take place from February 23-25.
The addition of a new race in southern France in February would compensate in part for the demise of the Tour Mediterranéen, which this season, for the first time in its 41-year history, did not take place due to financial problems.
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Already approved by the French Cycling Federation (FFC) and the French Cycling League (LNC), the organisers will now forward their dossier to the UCI, applying for 2.1 status for the race. The UCI will approve the 2016 calendar during the World Championships in Richmond in September.
The Tour La Provence would take place between the Tour du Haut-Var (February 20-21) and the Boucles-Drôme-Ardèche (February 27-28). As in the case of the Tour du Haut-Var, the OCCV club in Draguignan will be involved in the race organisation.
"We'll have more or less a similar field with maybe even more leaders than at the Tour du Haut-Var," organiser Serge Pascal told La Provence. "All of the teams will be happy because they will benefit from seven days of competition in one small geographical area in the space of one week."
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