After the success of the 2014 Grand Départ of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, and the innagural Tour de Yorkshire, the race is back for its second running. And ASO head Christian Prudhomme says the race will once more ask the UCI to extend it from a three-day race to a four-day event.
"This year’s first edition of the Tour de Yorkshire showed that the fervour and enthusiasm we saw at the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in 2014 has been sustained. It also demonstrated once again that the pride that the people of Yorkshire have for their region is magnificent. We will see how things go in 2016, but we hope that there will be a fourth stage very soon."
British Cycling turned down the first request for an extra stage in September, saying in a statement: "All the signs are that the Tour de Yorkshire will be successful but more evidence is required before an informed judgement can be made." Prudhomme replied to this: "British Cycling has done an enormous amount for the sport in this country. However, assuming we have another good edition of the Tour de Yorkshire in 2016, we will make another bid to have a fourth day added to the race in 2017."
Speaking on the 2016 edition, Prudhomme thinks it will be very exciting, and beneficial to Yorkshire as a whole.
"It’s a race that will not only show us new aspects of the region but will also build to a real crescendo with two opening stages that should suit the sprinters, and then a final one finishing in Scarborough that is going to be much tougher. I think it’s easy to imagine a scenario where we will have a different leader at the end of each stage. In terms of the general classification, that’s going to be up for grabs right until the very last moment."
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