DUE to the severe effects of the inclement weather the past couple of weeks, the six-stage Larga Pilipinas cycling marathon has been rescheduled to a later date.
Larga Pilipinas operations chief Snow Badua made the announcement during Tuesday’s Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum at the conference hall of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.
The event was originally scheduled to start on Aug. 2. Instead, the race that will feature as many as 10 teams with international riders will fire off on Nov. 29.
“It’s quite unfortunate because the teams prepared hard for this. But as we speak, there are areas in Northern Luzon especially in the Cordilleras that are currently isolated because of the heavy rains,” said Badua during the forum presented by San Miguel Corporation, Philippine Sports Commission, Philippine Olympic Committee, MILO, Smart/PLDT, and the country’s 24/7 sports app Arena Plus.
“Heavily battered ang Northern Luzon that’s why in close coordination with the different LGUs (local government units), we needed to reset, also upon the advice by PhilCycling president Abraham Tolentino,” he added.
Badua said the weather in November in Northern Luzon should be a lot better for the races to be conducted safely and effectively.
“Palipasin na muna natin ang typhoon season. Let’s give the LGUs all the time to focus on the situation and huwag na tayo madagdag sa isipin nila,” Badua said.
Communications have been sent out to all the teams, particularly the foreign teams that were supposed to arrive Wednesday.
