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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Manuel "maui" reynante - 1977 and 1980 tour of luzon champ.

The Tour of Luzon was launched in 1955 as a four-stage race from Manila to Vigan (an ancient town established by the Spanish, with very old churches made of adobe stone). The next year the Manila Times newspaper took over, renamed it Tour of Luzon, and increased the number of stages. The tour helped increase newspaper sales. Famous riders in that era include Pangasinan riders CORNELIO PADILLA, JESS GARCIA (both 2-time champs), and JOSE SUMALDE of Catanduanes. No tours were held in '68, 70, '71, 72. In 1977 a rift led to the holding of two tours that year, one of which was won by Manuel Reynante (his first win), and the other by Jess Garcia (his 2nd win). Reynante won again in 1980. In the years 1977 to 1981, the tour's name changed yearly, reflecting different sponsors and the instability of the sport at that time.

Photo below shows riders going through one of the towns along the flat stages.

In 1978 Marlboro (the cigarette company) took over and began a reign of 21 years until 1998 when it withdrew sponsorship. 1999 to 2001 saw no tours. In 2002 and to this day, FedEx (the air freight company) sponsored the tour under various names. One of the more memorable Tour victories was a win in 1987 by a cigarette and fishball vendor from Valenzuela named REYNALDO DEQUITO . In 1991 the race was eerily similar to American Greg Lemond's come-from-behind win in the 1989 Tour de France. In 1991 BERNARDO LLENTADA trailed CARLO GUIEB by 46.12 seconds going into the 17th and last stage, a 32-km race-against-the-clock along Roxas Blvd. Llentada rode a never-before-seen aerobar and a disc wheel, and won the Tour by one-minute and 30.48 seconds over Guieb. Guieb won it two years later, and the year after that. In 1997 when the tour was recognized by the UCI for the first time, cyclists from all nationalities were allowed to compete. A Hong Kong national, Wong Kam Po won it. Also, UCI rules were enforced for the first time, and the public was mildly amused at what it thought was a strange penalty against a rider: The violation was for urinating in public, a rule used for the first time at the Tour of Luzon. Riders from other countries complained of the bad rural roads, forgetting to note that even the Tour de France held stages on unpaved (gravel) roads.

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Summer in the Philippines is not complete without the peleton, dubbed as "Tour of Luzon" or "Tour ng Pilipinas". Growing up in small town waiting for the to pass by on summer time. Names from Estrata, Bonzo, Sicam, Rivas, Salamante, Benavidez, Reynante..... they are part of summer time in the Philippine sports.

Carlo Guieb's back to back championship in 93 and 94 should be ranked as one of the greatest achievement not only in Phlippine cycling but in Phlippine sports as well. In 1993 he bested Renato Dolosa and Loreto Mandi who at that time were having some kind of rivalry, en route to his first championship. He did this by attacking in the Baguio stages of the tour. More dramatic, however, was his victory in 1994. Down a few notches in standings, and trailing Placido Valdez IN THE ROAD for more than almost thirteen minutes, Guieb made a remarkable run, eating up on Valdez minutes and eventually catching up on him on the road to Baguio (sabi ng iba, dun daw sa may leon inabutan). The succeeding Baguio to Baguio stage (the killer lap) and the Pugo to Baguio stage catapulted him and cemented his hold to yellow jersey en route to his second championship.

Thanks for such a great info on Maui. I remember those times in the '70s when my amateur cycling friends and I were training every afternoon along Roxas Blvd (Dewey Blvd). Maui used to hang out with our group. He was a very respected pro cyclist (among others, Sumalde, Etrata, and Moring)among us. Maui loved to share his experiences and gave us advise on how to improve ourselves. I remember Maui as a cool-headed guy for his actions in preventing a potential shoot-out between one of our cyclists, I was riding with along Roxas Blvd, and a car driver. This driver was the cause of a massive pile-up when he opened his car door without first looking for the fastly approaching cyclists from his rear. It would have been a big tragedy if not for Maui who restrained the angered cyclist with a pistol.

In the early 70's I met Jess Garcia Jr. with 2 of his protege coming from Pangasinan. I was an aspiring amateur cyclist dreaming of going to the olympics then. We (Castaneda, Dinio, Manalo, among the many trying to catch up with these 2 proteges) raced against this guys at a dirt oval track in Astro Park outside the fences of US Clark Air Force Base. I remember Jess Garcia telling us to train in a sandy beach to strengthen our legs and most of all eat corn with rice everyday. I still ride, week ends, with a Christian Cycling Club, New Beginning Community Church and have logged in a couple of hundred miles on easy and fun pace. One of our cyclers told me about Jess Garcia's son visiting San Diego CA and rides occassionally with the Mira Mesa Club. I still have to meet the guy though. Anyway, keep on pushing the pedals. BALIW

In the mid 70's, I met Jess garcia Jr. with a couple of his proteges coming from Pangasinan (could not recall if they were the Mandi's and Pagarigan's). We raced these guys in a dirt oval track outside the perimeter fence of US Clark Air Force base. We tried our best to catch up but to no avail. I remember Jess Garcia saying to us that we need to train on a snady beach to strengthen our legs and eat a lot of corn with rice(diperensiyang mais lang yan). I was an aspiring amateur cyclist with hopes of going to the olympics but due to lack of finacial capabilities, I had to let go of the dream and joined the military instead. I still ride on week ends with a Christian Cycling Club, New Beginning Community Church. We have logged on a couple of hundred, fun and easy paced, miles. One of our fellow riders mentioned to me that Jess Garcia's son visits San Diego CA for business and rides occassionally with the Mira Mesa Club. I have not met him yet though. Well, keep on pedaling.

Sir Maui, you're the great person I've ever met...You are so very humble guy!

i have read all the names of the Champions and the year they won.. it's also interesting to know where they came from too ( what Provinces ). It is also a means how to locate them and maybe there are those Tournaments held every summer where they can be invited... if the Government has no worth of recognizing them, then at least somebody might be interested to have one of then as Guest Speaker because i believed they deserved to be recognized for their great experience and achievements and especially to share words of encouragement to the youth.

i was named after YOU sir MAUI. my dad was a cyclist as well.thank you for your discipline and a good display of life .

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Tuesday, may 24, 2005, remembering the marlboro tour.

It's summer time many years ago, after the "Closing" in Mintal Elementary School and Holy Cross of Mintal. Time to help my father tend the little store we keep in the market and get the chance to be the first to read the daily news serving of Tempo. It also meant I can serve more Masses at the Immaculate Conception Parish especially during the Holy Week and Easter season. The whole May for Flores de Mayo. And of course glued in to my favorite Cebuano dramas in the radio. But what made those summers more memorable was the Marlboro Tour of Luzon. It was the time of the year that the country's elite cyclists gather and travel across the majestic mountains of Sierra Madre, plains of Central Luzon, the treacherous Dalton Pass en route to the city of Baguio and the gruelling travels to the Bicolandia passing through the notorious Bitukang Manok (am I right?). At the time the farthest place I went to was Bohol. Haven't traveled to Luzon made me marvel if I could venture to those places myself in a few year's time. It was an Inquirer front page in 1986 which showed half-body portrait of an exhausted champion which bares the title: The Marlboro Champion is a tuba gatherer. I was referring to the legendary Boholano Ronaldo Pagnanawon who won the Tour that year. A tuba for those querying brains, is an rural Filipino drink made up of coconut juice, fermented and flavored with something called tongog . It's a truly Filipino drink which somehow never got the limelight because of its notorious ethnic taste and was often associated with the backward economy of the hinterlands. Personally I do not drink it, though my brother did when we were young enough to realize a drunk man don't appeal well to women. Concocted with egg and chocolate drink from cacao nuts, it transforms itself to an energizing kinutil which made me sick when my grandma introduced it to me. So that's the product Pagnanawon gather before (possibly after too) he joined the 21-lap bikathon. It's typical for tuba gatherers to ride their rickety bicycles (fondly called pantubaay ) to carry two 12-gallon bins to sell to sari sari store retailers whose business transforms itself into an important gossip generating, self-made drinking pub as the clock hits the angelus. Traveling across barrios bringing joy to the hungry palates of tired farmers, Pagnanawon has been doing the job for years, and apparently, his desire to earn more prompted him to kick the pedal faster. Eventually, it brought him honor to the ranks of the lowly manananggot people, the local term for tuba gatherer. The job of climbing a forty footer coconut tree is a daunting task, a career that almost took the life of my uncle. It was a patriotic act of recalling the past glory of Philippine cycling where collecting gold medals in SEA Games were a norm just before aerodynamic technology put an edge to the Europeans and eventually those who caught up with it elsewhere in the world. Carlo Guieb, Gerardo Igos, Bernardo Llentada, Romeo Bonzo, the late Jacinto Sicam, Armando Catalan and Renato Dolosa, formed the Hall of Fame cast in Philippine cycling, lording the streets and baked pavements summer after summer in the 80s and 90s. Lap by lap, from Sorsogon in the South to Laoag in the North, I tune in via my lola's transistor radio, listening to Rick Yap Santos and Danny Javier with my peculiar pen and paper stance to add up the accumulated time clocking of teams such as the Broncos, Mavericks, Studs and later regionalized teams to make team building more meaningful among racers from various parts of the country. Those days were gone but surely the joys of cycling will always be remembered even if it is a fact that I learned how to ride the bike just hours after my high school graduation.

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It’s quite simply the home of cycling

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan—The cyclist who nearly broke a time trial world mark by the great Jacques Anquetil lives 23 kilometers away from here.

On a lot across a corn field stands the house of another biking giant. Half a kilometer to the east lives yet another big wheel in the cult of the chain.

Welcome to Mangaldan, Pangasinan—cradle of cycling champions.

This abattoir town has no dedicated training race course for cyclists. Its pedalists thrive on the fly. An itinerant schedule is their source of strength.

“Mangaldan and the whole of Pangasinan is quite simply the home of cycling,” brags Jesus Garcia Jr., twice champion of the Tour of Luzon—considered PH’s version of the fabled Tour de France which Anquetil won a then unmatched five times, in 1957 and from 1961-1964.

Garcia and Samson Cariño are practically neighbors in Barangay Buenlag here. Cariño captured the rival Picaa Tour in 1975. His kid brother Ruben won the 1984 Marlboro Tour, one of the original Tour’s alterations through the years. Another Mangaldan native, Cesar Catambay captured second place in the 1973 and 1974 Tour of Luzon and in the Marlboro in 1983.

Now a sports reporter in Dagupan City, Garcia was Tour victor in 1973 and 1977. He keeps in touch with the living members of Pangasinan’s brotherhood of 19 professional cycling champions who turned their sport into a much-awaited summer spectacle for the masses.

He invited Samson Cariño and his distant nephew, 2013 Ronda Pilipinas overall sixth placer El Joshua Cariño for a chat last Sunday night. The next day, we drove to Lingayen in search of the younger Cariño and 1962 Tour titlist Edmundo de Guzman. We found De Guzman but not Ruben.

At 74, De Guzman still pedals to Alaminos, 40 kilometers from Pangasinan’s capital at least once a month. He keeps fit with hand grips he clicked while we talked. He says he would climb coconut trees in his yard sometimes to remain agile.

In the 1960 Tour, De Guzman almost shattered the Frenchman Anquetil’s then world record pace of 47.05 kilometers per hour in the individual time trial. De Guzman was only three seconds off Anquetil’s feat after that year’s race against the clock from Urdaneta to Calasiao.

“We, the oldtimers did not get stuck on a course because we never had one,” De Guzman said. “We pedaled on all kinds of roads in Pangasinan, Zambales and the foothills to build chemistry and strength the young guns with their feather-like titanium bikes and high tech-training today still don’t have.”

Garcia says current Pangasinan riders are also workhorses, but the truest gauge of any rider’s success is the ability to climb mountains.

“Ronald Oranza dominated for a while in this year’s Ronda, but his lack of a kick in the peaks pulled him down,” observed Garcia, the king of the hills in the 1975 Picaa. Oranza, a media-scared 19-year-old from Villasis town, eventually finished third overall.

“The ultimate success for cyclists young and old is winning without cheating,” says former Pangasinan Gov. Oscar Orbos.

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BM Cycling Season 1: WHAT AN AMAZING RIDE

What couldn’t happen on the road, the BusinessMirror accomplished on air—thanks to the wonders of technology called the internet, Facebook and Youtube.

BusinessMirror Cycling, or BM Cycling, is the multiawarded business daily newspaper’s answer to the Covid-19 pandemic that shut down most—if not all—of sports for a year.

“It wasn’t that tough a decision to come up with a program on Facebook Live and Youtube about cycling, all forms of cycling—from the elite down to the so-called weekend warriors,” BusinessMirror publisher Anthony Cabangon said. “Putting it simply, the passion for cycling is what put together and flagged off BM Cycling.”

BM Cycling aired 13 episodes to complete one season.

The inaugural episode—aptly called Stages to conform with cycling parlance—aired December 14 last year with the country’s pride in the 2019 30th Southeast Asian Games as guests.

“It was a work in progress to begin with,” Cabangon said. “Yes, BusinessMirror was already doing podcasts on business, economy, politics, etc., but BM Cycling offered a different flavor, a soothing one.”

For the first four stages, BM Cycling aired live from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays from the newspaper’s conference room-cum-studio in Makati City. But because of demands from BM Cycling’s audience from the local and international cycling community, the airing was pulled down to a more convenient time slot of 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

ANTHONY’S SHIFT IN PASSION

ANTHONY CABANGON’S passion was golf. Until he discovered cycling.

It was some five years ago in the pre-pandemic era when Cabangon and two close friends joined BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao, Race Director Sunshine Joy Vallejos and Ube Media Inc. president Donna Lina in the Le Tour de Filipinas’s Bicol Region swing.

The Le Tour de Filipinas is the forerunner of the fabled Tour—which had various names among them Tour of Luzon, Marlboro Tour, FedEx Express Tour of Calabarzon, Tour Pilipinas and Padyak Pinoy. The last three Tours were all bankrolled by Air21 of former PhilCycling president now chairman Alberto Lina.

It took only two stages for Cabangon and his friends to be enamored with the bicycle, having been exposed to world-class cycling in the Le Tour, the longest running International Cycling Union Category 2.1 multi-stage race in the country (the pandemic halted its 11th edition in 2020).

Back at the BusinessMirror offices, Cabangon dreamt of a BM Cycling road race, not exactly in the mold of the Le Tour or the LBC Ronda Pilipinas, but one that’s unusual for a business newspaper to get involved with.

Plans were laid out, surveys were conducted and everything but logistics were put in place at the Subic Bay Freeport.

But for several reasons, the race didn’t get to see the road.

PANDEMIC YEAR 2020: BICYCLE’S KING

WORKING from home was one of the safest ways to avoid contracting the virus. And from all corners sprouted podcasts, online seminars or talk shows which gave birth to the word webinar.

Everyone was glued to their gadgets as strict safety and health protocols banned live or face-to-face activities. BusinessMirror embarked on podcasts and webinars bordering on the economy, agriculture, arts and business.

And the bicycle? The two-wheeled wonder sensationally became a necessity when public transport wasn’t available.

And then it hit him.

Cabangon has a road bike. At times, he cycles from his Quezon City residence to the office in Makati City and back. A round trip covers around 30 kilometers, peanuts for someone who walks the golf course for at least three hours to complete 18 holes under all conditions.

“Why not do cycling on the web?” Cabangon asked himself.

And the rest, as they always say, is history.

FROM RAGS TO, WELL, WORK IN PROGRESS

A WET-in-the-ears crew for a pseudo live television production was formed for BM Cycling—which, initially was christened BM Talks Cycling (Talks was dropped for brevity).

BusinessMirror Art Director Ed Davad was, well, the director. The staff was composed of Sari Osorio (guest coordination and monitoring), Philip Navarro (IT and technical) Brix Villaruel (IT and technical), Faye Pablo (guest coordinaton and monitoring) and April Sarabia-Bornales (ways and means).

The BusinessMirror Photo Department composed of chief Nonie Reyes, Nonoy Lacza, Roy Domingo and Bernard Testa were added to the team. Later in the season, Loreine Galang joined the team for IT and Leah Caling Bonotan for local government unit coordination.

BusinessMirror Advertising Manager Aldwin Maralit Tolosa headed marketing with Rodel Suarez, Boyet Nicasio and Carlo Abalos as active lieutenants.

Lest we forget, BusinessMirror sportswriter Josef Ramos dropping by every BM Cycling night for moral support and Carlos Ganabban helping out at logistics.

Tasked to host the one-and-half-hour show were Jun Lomibao and Sunshine Joy Vallejos, both directors of the national federation for cycling, PhilCycling, and UCI national commissaires for road.

Lomibao as a long-time sportswriter had covered the Tour when it was still called the Marlboro Tour and up to 2019, chronicled all of the 10 annual editions of the Le Tour de Filipinas.

Vallejos, on the other hand, has 11 years of experience in organizing road races with Ube Media Inc. She worked the last edition of the Padyak Pinoy in 2009 and was the race director of the Le Tour de Filipinas from 2015 up to the present.

She was also race director and chief organizer of the 2016 World University Cycling Championships in Tagaytay City in 2016 and the 2018-19 PhilCycling National Road Championships.

Why was the cycling competitions of the 30th SEA Games in in Tagaytay City and Batangas a success? Fingers are pointing at Vallejos.

But BM Cycling would not have answered the start gun with enough ease if not for the precious pieces of advice from the Panahon TV staff.

SAN MIGUEL CORP. AS SPEARHEAD

A SPEARHEAD in a road competition is a race official who rides in a marked vehicle way ahead of the race column. He makes sure that the road is a green-and-go for the riders and that any obstruction is properly cleared to guarantee safe passage for the race column.

San Miguel Corp. (SMC) played that role as a title sponsor-cum-presentor of BM Cycling.

The Ramon S. Ang-led conglomerate was BM Cycling’s partner from start to finish. That iconic SMC logo became part and parcel of the program, thanks to SMC Media Affairs Group Head Mary Jane Llanes.

“Anyone who watches BM Cycling could now incorporate San Miguel Corp. with the program, and vice versa,” BusinessMirror account executive Boyet Nicasio said.

CONCRETE SUPPORT FROM BIG BOSS

THERE was little hesitation on the part of Engineer Gilbert Cruz when Big Boss joined the race midway Season 1.

Big Boss prides itself as a 100 percent Filipino-owned company that specializes in producing environment friendly cement in the country, according to Cruz, the company president and chief company innovator.

Cruz is no stranger to cycling and sports. Years ago, he was the country manager of a major cycling company and at present, Big Boss supports basketball, particularly the Adamson University Soaring Falcons and International Boxing Federation junior bantamweight champion Jerwin Ancajas.

STAGE 1: SEA GAMES CHAMPS ON BOARD

STAGE 1 actually didn’t have a title—a birth pain. But it was filled with fresh stars—the gold medalists in the 30th SEA Games the country hosted in December 2019 in Tagaytay City and Batangas.

And because it was the inaugural episode, it was a jittery start. Jun Lomibao has no experience hosting a live program—writers are said to be better read than seen or heard. Sunshine Joy Vallejos has in her portfolio experiences in live production, so she knew the flow and was composed.

On tap for Day 1 were Jermyn Prado, gold medalist in women’s individual time trial and massed start of road; Lea Denis Belgira, gold medalist in women’s downhill of mountain bike; and John Derrick Far, gold medalist in men’s downhill of mountain bike.

They were joined by Renato Dolosa, a two-time Marlboro Tour champion who remains to be one of the most popular riders in Philippine cycling history.

PhilCycling President Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino missed the opening salvo as he was in Dubai attending an important Olympic Council of Asia meeting as president of the Philippine Olympic Committee.

STAGE 2: THE WAY WE WERE

THE title says it all and the guest list for the December 21 episode was a clear writing on the wall—BM Cycling was to talk with the legends of Philippine cycling and a former UCI President who once called the country home.

The legendary Paquito Rivas, the original Eagle of the Mountain who won the Marlboro Tour in 1979, sat at the head of the table. Renato Dolosa was back along with Juancho Ramores, Rivas’s heir as King of the Mountain.

But the internet connection wasn’t cooperative with Rivas, Dolosa and Ramores, leaving former UCI president Pat McQuaid as the solo guest for the day.

McQuaid was one of the top UCI officials who were responsible for transforming the Marlboro Tour into a major international road race on this side of the planet.

The conversation with McQuaid had that elite touch, with the Irishman advising on how a Filipino rider could be molded into a world-class elite cyclist.

STAGE 3: BORN TO RIDE, BORN TO WIN

IT was another night of the champions four days before New Year 2021.

First, Victor Espiritu, a rare complete cyclist—someone who is as fierce in the climb as he is in the sprint. A multi-gold medalist in the SEA Games and bronze medalist in the Asian Games, he was the rookie champion of the 1996 Marlboro Tour racing for the national team against grizzled professional veterans.

Here’s more: Espirutu was feared in the velodrome as he was on the road, winning gold in track’s points race at the Nakhon Ratchasima 2007 SEA Games.

Talk about Espiritu and Mark John Lexer Galedo is a bike’s length behind and the younger George Oconer two bikes further back, if we take seniority into account.

Galedo was the Myanmar 2013 SEA Games individual time trial gold medalist, a feat that put a target on his back in the games that followed. He also etched his name as champion of the 2009 LPGMA Tour of Luzon, 2012 LBC Ronda Pilipinas and 2014 Le Tour de Filipinas.

Like father, like son, this Oconer. Son of two-time Olympian Norberto Oconer, one of the dreaded amateur riders in his prime, the young Oconer won the individual title and led the Philippine Navy-Standard Insurance Cycling Team to the team crown in the 2020 Ronda Pilipinas that wound up a day before the pandemic lockdown.

STAGE 4: GIRLS RIDE OUT

LET the ladies in and bring forth fresh hope for the new year and rid mother earth of the pandemic.

Jermyn Prado, Marella Salamat and Avegail Rombaon, to date the country’s top lady riders, have proven their mettle in the SEA Games.

Prado returned for the January 4 episode to join the ladies’ night with former rival-turned best friend Salamat, who was a nobody in SEA Games cycling until she competed for the first time in the biennial regional games in Singapore in 2015 and surprised everyone by snatching the women’s ITT gold medal.

Rombaon is as versatile as the former SEA Games cycling queen Marites Bitbit was at the top of her career. The Iriga City pride did road before shifting to mountain bike, bagging a bronze medal in women’s cross country in the 2019 SEA Games.

It was ladies’ night alright but efforts by the hosts to squeeze their colorful yet intriguing past as national team members turned futile. Girls!

STAGE 5: CONTINENTAL CONVERSATIONS

AFTER the ladies, the men came marching in.

The January 11 episode featured continental team owner Jeremy Go of Go For Gold and sports director Ric Rodriguez of 7-Eleven Cliqq Air21 by Roadbike Philippines.

A former athlete, Go, vice president for marketing of Powerball that runs Scratch It, plunged into the continental team venture with Go For Gold but hasn’t limited his support for sports to cycling.

A triathlete and cyclist, Go also supports triathlon, basketball, sepak takraw, among others, and is the exclusive distributor of Storck bikes and accessories in the country.

Rodriguez has been with cycling for decades. He was once a spearhead of the Tour Pilipinas under the Philippine National Cycling Association of Paquito Rivas and was a co-pioneer with Luis Carlos, a former director of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor, in forming the Pagcor Trade Team in the UCI.

A continental team is a professional cycling team registered with the UCI. The team could be invited to race in UCI-sanctioned races—for Go For Gold and 7-Eleven Cliqq Air21 by Roadbike Philippines case, they are eligible to race in competitions in Asia.

STAGE 6: COACHING HUDDLE

IN basketball and most team sports, they say players win games and coaches lose them. Does this apply to cycling?

The cyclist has the road, track or trail to himself when he/she is competing. That’s where all the long hours of training and suffering get into play, when the legs are about to give in, the mind takes over.

This was the consensus of Ednalyn Calitis Hualda and Reinhard Gorantes of road and Eusebio Quinones and Fredirck Farr of mountain bike in BM Cycling’s sixth episode on January 18.

The national coaches are one in declaring that it’s the athlete’s heart, mind, passion and dedication that have to work in sync to accomplish the mission.

Don’t count these national coaches out. Their resume is topped by the three gold (two in mountain bike and one in women’s ITT), four silvers (one in men’s downhill and cross country of mountain bike, one in women’s road race and one in BMX racing) and four bronze (one each in men and women cross country and one each in men’s team time trial and massed start of road race).

STAGE 7: PANGASINAN PRIDE

WHAT’S up mga karonda, this is Gaye Paris, ang siklistang Filipina ng Pangasinan, so today’s ride . . .

Gaye Paris who? If you’re a cycling enthusiast, you must know Paris, a bike blogger with close to 25,000 followers on Youtube. A physical therapist at the Rural Health Unit in her hometown of Binalonan, Paris has been making those fearless rides up Kennon Road and Marcos Highway to name a few—and she’s not even an elite rider—she claims she wants to be a duathlete and not a triathlete because she has yet to master swimming.

Paris was the rose among the thorns in the January 25 episode, upstaging elite national team mainstays Ronald Oranza and brothers El Joshua and Daniel Ven Carino.

Oranza, of course, was the 2018 Ronda Pilipinas champion, the elder El Joshua Carino topped the 2018 Le Tour de Filipinas and his younger brother Daniel was the Best Young Rider (Under-23) in the 2019 edition also of the Le Tour de Filipinas.

The episode featured the present generation of champion riders from Pangasinan, the cradle of Philippine cycling.

STAGE 8: PROMOTING CYCLING CULTURE

Cycling culture, like walking, hasn’t really created an impact to the community primarily perhaps because of the warm and humid climate and that Filipinos, sad to say, wanted to get together to their destination door-to-door.

But in the afternoon of the first day of February, such was addressed with two lady guests.

The first was Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, chairperson of the Build-Build-Build program and Infrastructure Cluster Communications Committee of the Department of Public Works and Highways.

The second was advocate Karen Silva Crisostomo, cofounder of Bicycle Friendly Philippines and Pasig City’s Non-motorized Transportation Specialist.

It was one healthy exchange of notes from two ladies with comprehensive and logical ideas on how to adopt and address cycling in major and busy roads and to eventually achieve a culture where the easiest way to go from A to B is to ride a bike.

STAGE 9: INJURY-FREE RIDE

ALBERT EINSTEIN had an interesting quote on cycling: Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Keeping your balance is the hardest thing to do for starters, but once you get the feel of the equipment, it becomes second nature and the tendency is to keep moving forward—faster and faster and faster.

Then a crash and the injury that comes with the fall.

Two orthopedic surgeons who also specialize in sports medicines—Dr. Carmelo Braganza and Dr. Anthony Castro—along with Doha-based Master in Sports Science Saul Anthony Sibayan and veteran coach, trainer and a former national track and road team member Dominic Carpio of Davao City were an interesting quartet on discussing how to prevent and heal cycling injuries.

Besides being doctors, trainers, sports science experts and coaches, they definitely knew what they talked about, being athletes or practitioners of what they are preaching.

STAGE 10: POLITICAL WILL

A CITY mayor and a former councilor now city administrator were a dynamic duo a day after Valentine’s Day.

Mayor Marc Brian Lim was good copy for most of the entire one-and-a-half-hour program, talking about his local government’s approach to the new bicycle normal in the most progressive and congested city in Pangasinan, Dagupan City.

Dagupan City is not exactly a big LGU if its commercial center is concerned. Downtown, as they call it up there, is just one rectangular area no bigger than four square kilometers, but extremely busy during the day and almost empty come nightfall.

Thus, Lim has little to worry about bike lanes in the commercial area and has enough reason to rejoice because of the accessibility by bike’s in almost all of the city’s barangay roads.

Danao City’s Oscar “Boying” Durano Rodriguez is an authority on cycling. The Duranos are responsible for introducing the mountain bike to country, bringing with them their equipment when they finished school in the US.

Because of that, Danao City became the Mountain Bike Capital of the Philippines, having hosted at least four Asian Championships and two SEA Games. Most of the country’s champion mountain bikers earned their spurs in the city’s world-class and challenging tracks.

STAGE 11: NORTHERN SWING

IT was a governor’s turn to talk about cycling on February 2. Ironically, this provincial executive was first a champion junior golfer with a mean swing and steady putt, and later evolved into a promising basketball star.

Perhaps it’s in Ilocos Norte Governor’s Matthew Joseph Marcos Manotoc’s genes—his dad is champion golfer, grand slam basketball coach and gentleman sportsman Tommy Manotoc.

The only guest on that day, Manotoc teed off with ease, comfortably swung through the conversation about a sport he doesn’t seriously engage with and dribbled and shot the answers traceable to his senator mother Imee Marcos side’s political savvy.

Yes, Manotoc doesn’t bike, at least perhaps on a regular basis, but take note of this: during the pandemic when sports remained shut down almost all over, the governor organized three legs of the Ilocos Cycling Tour (ICT).

The ICT was not a race but a province-wide activity where participants rode bicycles of all shapes and sizes with one goal to achieve—announce to the entire country that Ilocos Norte is winning the battle against Covid-19 and that Ilocanos are healthy and strong, and so is the province’s economy and tourism.

STAGE 12: DUTCH THE WAY

BM Cycling went international again on March 3, riding over the paved and at times cobbled roads and pathways of Amsterdam, one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.

Of course, the program wasn’t shot live all the way from The Netherlands. It’s still difficult to fly out of the country with all these travel restrictions.

Joining the show were Pieter Tepstra, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of The Netherlands, and Kevin Punzalan, Senior Policy Officer for Economic and Public Affairs also at the Dutch embassy.

It was one jolly tete-a-tete as Tepstra and Punzalan were as conversation-friendly as the bicycle-friendly Dutch capital.

Three points of discussion drew the most interest. The first was Tepstra’s revelation that the Dutch don’t wear helmets when they ride their bikes at home, only foreigners do (it’s easy to spot who’s local and who’s not in The Netherlands).

The second was that bicycle thieves abound in some places in his country, something that caught the program’s hosts, staff and viewers by surpruse. It was like “it’s not only in the Philippines.”

And the third: comparing Amsterdam and Metro Manila in terms of the use of bicycles and bike lanes is like comparing apples and mangoes.

STAGE 13: RIDE HIGH LADIES

BM Cycling crossed the finish line for Season 1 on a very special day—International Women’s Day—on March 8.

Three respected ladies representing various sectors of society gleamed and charmed the cycling community with their wit and enviable experiences.

Elma Muros Posadas never cross-trained on a bicycle, but never mind, she’s one of the most accomplished Filipina in the field of athletics, dominating the SEA Games with more than a dozen gold medals in long jump, hurdles and sprints.

Atty. Wilma “Amy” Eisma is no cyclist, too. She’s into obstacle sports but as Administrator and Chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, she made sure to the show’s audience that Subic will remain as the country’s top sports destination—and even do better—as soon as this pandemic is vanquished.

Gaye Paris was back on the panel representing the young ladies who embraced the sport during the pandemic and braving routes that many believe only the men could conquer.

For Paris, she was “star-struck” that day as she shared center stage with sports icon Muros Posadas and a strong woman leader Eisma.

CONNECTIVITY WOES MAKE CLIMBS TOUGHER

THE 13-stage, one-season ride was generally fun and informative, but issues on connectivity at times neutralized the program.

Actually, it’s not only BM Cycling that occasionally experiences poor internet connection during its inaugural season, the whole country does. At times, the show hung, leaving the hosts Comm1 (Jun Lomibao) and Comm2 (Sunshine Joy Vallejos) lost as to what to do next.

Comm2 missed some stages because connectivity is as worse in her home base of Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya. Stage 1 featured Lea Denise Belgira guesting from her native Guimaras, but her connection was as murky as a muddy puddle in a mountain bike course.

Well, as they say, it comes with the territory and you’ll never know what to expect in a live program.

Hopefully, the country’s internet connection woes are gotten rid of as quickly as everyone wants to eliminate the virus.

MTB BIKES AND MORE FOR KA-BM CYCLING

THREE mountain bikes and several limited-edition BM Cycling t-shirts, pairs of socks and bar tapes were given away to loyal BM Cycling viewers who we call Ka-BM.

The lucky winners of the three mountain bikes courtesy of the show and BusinessMirror boss Anthony Cabangon were Rose Serafica of Tondo, Manila; Susan Bermas of Sucat, Parañaque; and Kai Garcia of Bagong Ilog, Pasig City

All three winners had one common denominator: they were intending to buy themselves bicycles like many of their friends and neighbors, but because of BM Cycling, they don’t need to shell out cash anymore.

But what really made the MTB contest even more fun and exciting? The BM Ducklings. Watch Season 2 and you’ll know why.

Making up the the honor roll for the trivia contest winners were Cesar Jose Salvador Vertiz, Lee Contreras, Jefree Villamil, Mark John Lexer Galedo, Connie Jardin Carpio, Faija Sakaluran, Edwin “Dwain” Badua and John Christian Rivera.

CYCLING CLUBS BM PARTNERS

CYCLING clubs have thrived long before and it was one of BM Cycling’s goal to honor the men and women, boys and girls who make up these groups who ride normally on weekends.

Among the clubs BM Cycling featured on video were Gruppo Italia (Las Pinas City), Canlubang (Laguna), Avengers, Intransit, Sayti Bikers Club (Caloocan City) and Team Excellent Noodles Cycling Club.

BM CYCLING: ALL TERRAIN, RAIN OR SHINE

WHEN the internet connection was fine—audio 5×5 and video crystal—BM Cycling was pedaling over well-paved or well-maintained asphalt roads. When connectivity was bad, it was a punishing climb to a hors category King of the Mountain summit.

Cycling is fun, a cheap and practical way to move around. As a competitive sport, expect a treacherous and painful ride through thirst and hunger. But that’s the beauty of cycling, that’s what make’s cycling unique.

BM Cycling completed one race, Season 1. The ride may not have been that perfect, but there’s always tomorrow’s race and it won’t matter whether it’s terribly hot or precariously wet and slippery. Rain or shine, go out and cycle.

See you on April 12, same time and same day, for BM Cycling’s Season 2.

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King of the road

Cycling great Renato Dolosa still hits the roads these days, but no longer in the backbreaking manner that he used to.

Nowadays the two-time Marlboro Tour champion spends most tour stages near the tail end of the peloton and in the comfort of a team support car, untouched by the scorching heat of the sun or the driving rain.

His 45-year-old legs may no longer be able to keep pace with the new crop of road warriors, but Dolosa’s reputation as one of the best tactical riders in Philippine cycling has made him in demand as a coach.

"Medyo matrabaho lang pero gusto ko ito," said the 1992 and 1995 Tour champion. "Nakakatuwa na marami pa ring nagtitiwala [sa akin] hanggang ngayon."

Dolosa has had a lot of success in his second career. He led a rookie-laden squad to the team title in the 2006 Tour Pilipinas and to a runner-up finish the following year. His team also reigned supreme in the 2009 Padyak Pinoy and last year’s Ronda Pilipinas.

Away from the multi-stage summer tour, the pride of Gubat, Sorsogon makes a living as manager and in-house coach of the Tour of Luzon Bike Café, where he helps clients plan their bike builds or upgrade their current setups.

He is not selfish with advice to enthusiasts, allowing wannabe racers to pick his brains.

A typical day would see Dolosa meeting with his wards in the morning, manning the Macapagal Avenue branch of the Tour of Luzon Bike Café and proceeding to its Sucat branch in the afternoon before heading home to Sta. Rosa, Laguna.

With the renewed interest in cycling, Dolosa has never been short of job offers. A number of business executives and wealthy hobbyists want him as personal trainer and there are opportunities for him to hold regular cycling clinics.

Another friend has also brought up the idea of setting up an internet-based coaching and consulting program for the former Tour champ.

But Dolosa remains a simple man with modest goals, content that he has been able to support the education of his three sons —his eldest is a nursing graduate, his second is a hotel and restaurant management major and his youngest a high school senior.

"Hindi rin naman ako naghahangad ng malaki… basta mayroon lang, basta komportable lang,” said Dolosa.

Neither is he bitter than no one among his sons decided to follow in his trail.

"Nakita rin ng mga anak ko yung hirap sa tour kaya siguro wala na rin sa kanila ang sumubok na sumunod sa akin," he said. "Mabuti na rin ’yun, nakikita ko silang mapunta sa iba-ibang field."

Masters and Executive races are popular these days and the desire to compete still burns for Dolosa. He has even built two race-worthy bikes for his personal use.

But the two bikes will have to stay in the garage for now, with Dolosa content in his role as mentor to aspiring champions.

"Basta makikinig sila, willing akong magturo. Hangga’t may nagtitiwala, nandito lang naman tayo para tumulong,” he said.

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Tour de Filipinas

The Le Tour de Filipinas is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Luzon , Philippines since 1955 as part of the UCI Asia Tour . It is held in April every year. While the course changes every year, the tour traditionally ends at Rizal Park , Manila , although recently the tour has ended in Baguio after being licensed by the UCI. Its previous names included the Tour of Luzon , Marlboro Tour , Tour of Calabarzon , Tour Pilipinas and Padyak Pinoy , before carrying the current name.

• 1.1 1955 – 1976: Tour of Luzon
• 1.2 1979 – 1998: Marlboro Tour
• 1.3 1999 – 2001: End of Marlboro Tour
• 1.4 2002 – Recent years
• 2.1 Marlboro Tour days
• 2.2 Le Tour de Filipinas days
• 3.1 Tour of Luzon
• 3.2 Tour of the Philippines
• 3.3 Marlboro Tour
• 3.4 Le Tour de Pilipinas / Padyak Pinoy / FedEx/Air21 Tour
• 6 External links

1955 – 1976: Tour of Luzon

In 1955, the Tour was launched as a four-stage race from Manila to Vigan race won by Antonio Arzala . But, a year later, the race was renamed as the Tour of Luzon and carried the name until 1976 (there was no tour held in 1968, 1970–1972).

The prominent riders included two-time Tour champions Cornelio Padilla, Jr. of Central Luzon and Jose Sumalde of Bicol. However, in 1977, a rift within the PCAP (see below) led to a split of two tours during the said year. However, according to the Padyak Pinoy website, the event organized by Geruncio Lacuesta is recognized on their official list. The tour's name ended by 1978 as Marlboro entered the scene.

1979 – 1998: Marlboro Tour

By 1979, Marlboro became the official sponsor of the tour and the event was named as Marlboro Tour , a name that is commonly familiar to ardent racers and fans. During these times, the tour expanded its routes, by including cities from Visayas in the leg, with the final laps regularly held at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.

From 1997-1998, the tour allowed riders from Asia to compete in the event and was sanctioned by the UCI. It also led to Wong Kam-po of Hong Kong to become the first non-Filipino to win the event in 1997, after overtaking 1996 winner Victor Espiritu for the lead in the latter stages.

The format used for the teams are based on provinces with the national team included in the race. It was also the same format when Asian riders participated in the event beginning in 1997.

1999 – 2001: End of Marlboro Tour

In 1999, Marlboro backed out as sponsor which proved to be a devastating blow to the organizers. The tour lost about a possible 60-million pesos to finance the tour. With this, there was no tour held from 1999-2001. To compensate the loss of the so-called "Summer Cycling Spectacle", other groups formed mini-races during the summer.

A law was passed banning cigarette brands advertisements on TV, radio or any form like sport events like The Marlboro Tour.

2002 – Recent years

In 2002, the tour was revived after Airfreight 2100 of Bert Lina and Lito Alvarez financed the tour. A four-leg race was held in late-May known as Tour of CALABARZON won by Santy Barnachea. A year later, the tour was renamed as Tour Pilipinas , and held a 17-leg race, the longest since 1998. The tour was won by Arnel Quirimit of Pangasinan.

Ryan Tanguilig won in 2004 in a 10-stage tour. In 2005, the tour was renamed as the Golden Tour 50 @ 05 , honoring the 50th anniversary of the Tour. 1998 champion Warren Davadilla , who won the last edition of the Marlboro, was the champion. In 2006, several disputes within the Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines led to a short eight stage event dubbed with the current Padyak Pinoy name, won by Barnachea.

Its current corporate sponsor is Airfreight 2100, the official brand-carrier of FedEx and Air21, thru the UBE Media, Inc. (producers of the TV program Panahon.TV ), who has founded the tour since 2002. From 1979-1998, Marlboro was the carrying sponsor of the tour before backing out of the tour, resulting in the tour's stoppage for the next three years.

Marlboro Tour days

These were the stages in 1996:

• Davao City to Carmen, Davao del Norte
• Tagum , Davao del Norte to Butuan
• Butuan to Cagayan de Oro
• Cebu City to Cebu City ( individual time trial )
• Cebu City to Cebu City via Santander
• Dumaguete to Bacolod
• Iloilo City to Iloilo City via Pototan, Iloilo ( team time trial )
• Iloilo City to Iloilo City via San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
• Pasay to Lucena
• Lucena to Marikina
• Marikina to Olongapo
• Olongapo to Alaminos, Pangasinan
• Alaminos, Pangasinan to San Jose, Nueva Ecija
• San Jose, Nueva Ecija to Banaue, Ifugao
• Banaue, Ifugao to Tuguegarao, Cagayan
• Tuguegarao, Cagayan to Vigan, Ilocos Sur
• Vigan, Ilocos Sur to Baguio
• Rosario, La Union to Baguio ( individual time trial )
• Baguio to Baguio

Le Tour de Filipinas days

These were the stages in 2019:

• Tagaytay , Cavite to Tagaytay, Cavite via Lemery, Batangas
• Pagbilao , Quezon to Daet , Camarines Norte
• Daet, Camarines Norte to Legazpi , Albay
• Legazpi, Albay to Legazpi, Albay via Sorsogon City
• Legazpi, Albay to Legazpi, Albay via Donsol, Sorsogon

Past winners

Tour of luzon, tour of the philippines, marlboro tour, le tour de pilipinas / padyak pinoy / fedex/air21 tour.

In the 2016 edition, race organizers had to stop the stage 1 event due to unprecedented road repairs, followed by traffic jams in Tiaong , Quezon , the first in the history of Le Tour de Filipinas. [13]

Like other bicycle rices, the Tour also hands out specific jerseys: [14]

• Yellow: General classification
• Purple: Best Filipino rider
• Green: Best sprinter
• Red polka dot: Best climber
• White: Young rider
• ^ Manila–Vigan Bicycle Race
• ^ Tour ng Filipinas
• ^ Tour of Luzon–Visayas
• ^ There were two Tours held in 1977. The Tour ng Pilipinas was won by Manuel Reynante.
• ^ Staged by the Geruncio Lacuesta, acknowledged father of Philippine bikathoning, after a split among the cyclists and the formation of the Professional Cycling Association of the Philippines (PCAP) with Matias Defensor as president. Garcia won the Mindanao stage, Casta the Visayas stage and Gorospe the Luzon stage. It was Lacuesta's last tour as the PCAP took over center stage two years later in 1979. This tour is considered official by the current organization.
• ^ No regular tour held; instead the perk speed tour was run Feb. 9-12 over four laps aimed at producing the first cyclist(s) to achieve an average 40 km/h. Starting in Manila and winding up in Olongapo City , the speed test measured 405.8 km.s. Rumin Salamante won the event in 10 hrs. 11 mins., 10 secs.
• ^ In 1997, the Tour allowed cyclists from the neighboring Asian countries to participate in the event. Wong became the first foreign cyclist to win the event. Asian riders were allowed to participate in 1998.
• ^ David McCann is the first European cyclist to win the Tour. Non-Asian riders were allowed to participate in 2010.
• ^ Baler Ravina was the first Filipino overall winner in Le Tour de Filipina that was sanctioned by UCI.
• ^ "2016 Le Tour kicks off Feb. 18" . Philippine Daily Inquirer . 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 13 January 2016 .
• ^ Lagunzad, Jerome (February 21, 2016). "Young Kazakh rider earns spurs in Le Tour" . Fox Sports Asia . Retrieved February 21, 2016 .
• ^ "Road repairs ruin Le Tour's kick-off leg" . Manila Bulletin . February 18, 2016 . Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
• ^ Corp., ABS-CBN. "Le Tour de Filipinas: Oranza wins chaos-free Stage 2" . ABS-CBN SPORTS . Retrieved 2018-06-01 .

External links

• Official website
• Tour de Filipinas palmares at Cycling Archives
• Statistics at the-sports.org
• Le Tour de Filipinas at cqranking.com
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El Joshua Carino will have to summon more power from his legs when he defends his crown in the Le Tour de Filipinas that will celebrate its 10th year in 2019 with a five-stage race and a bigger cast of 20 teams of five cyclists each.

The International Cycling Union, the world-governing body for cycling, has approved the request of LTdF organizer Ube Media Inc. for a five-stage race from the previous four days to mark the 10th year of the event that has molded two other Filipino champions—Baler Ravina in 2012 and Mark Galedo in 2014.

The UCI scheduled the 2019 LTdF on the Asia Tour calendar from Feb. 17 to 21.

Carino, riding for Standard Insurance-Philippine Navy, joined 7-Eleven Roadbike Philippines riders Ravina and Galedo in the LTdF honor roll after ruling last year’s race that returned with a Baguio City finish over treacherous Kennon Road.

The LTdF returns down south to Bicol for the 10th edition with majestic Mayon Volcano again serving as a picturesque backdrop.

The LTdF is the predecessor of the fabled Philippine Tour that started with the Manila-Vigan Race and evolved into the Tour of Luzon, Tour ng Pilipinas, Marlboro Tour, FedEx Express Tour of Calabarzon, Tour Pilipinas, Golden Tour and Padyak Pinoy.

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Results, Stage 5 | Click for GC 1. Tomas Martinez (Philippines), Smart, 3:15:18 2. Dennis Von Nikalk (South Africa), Emg, at 0:07 3. Arnel Quirimit (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 0:38 4. Reid Mumford (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 0:48 5. Cris Joven (Philippines), American Vinyl, at 1:12 6. Daniel Asto (Philippines), Batang Tagaytay, at 1:18 7. Tots Oledan (Philippines), American Vinyl, at ST 8. Alfredo Asuncion (Philippines), Batang Tagaytay, at 1:23 9. Renato Sembrano (Philippines), Geo Estate Beacon, at 1:42 10. Santi Barnachea (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 1:44 11. Tolentino Jay (Philippines), Batang Tagaytay, at 1:51 12. Ronnel Hualda (Philippines), American Vinyl, at 1:54 13. David Veilleux (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at ST 14. Chene Hoag (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 2:10 15. Thomas Ashley (Germany), Ccn Collosi New Zealand, at 2:17 16. Emil Pablo (Philippines), Lpgma, at 2:55 17. Arnel Aves (Philippines ST), Lpgma 18. Sherwin Carera (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 3:17 19. Warren Davadilla (Philippines), Geo Estate Beacon, at 3:25 20. Chan Yat Wai (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 3:30 21. Joel Calderon (Philippines), Smart, at 4:34 22. Baler Ravina (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 4:39 23. Oscar Rendole (Philippines), Smart, at 4:48 24. Hilson Mangahis (Philippines), American Vinyl, at 4:54 25. Merculio Ramos (Philippines), Geo Estate Beacon, at 4:56 26. Albert Primero (Philippines), Lpgma, at 5:44 27. Jeffrey Monton (Philippines), Lpgma, at 5:56 28. James Perry (South Africa), Emg, at 6:16 29. Ryan Anderson (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at ST 30. Irish Valenzuela (Philippines), American Vinyl, at 6:26 31. Wai Man Chau (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 6:49 32. Michael Naylor (Germany), Ccn Collosi New Zealand, at 6:52 33. Julius Diaz (Philippines), American Vinyl, at 6:54 34. Lito Atilano (Philippines), Geo Estate – Beacon, at 6:56 35. Jesse Anthony (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 7:13 36. Joseph Millanes (Philippines), Smart, at 7:36 37. Jesus Garcia (Philippines), Batang Tagaytay, at 7:43 38. Bryant Sepnio (Philippines), Geo Estate – Beacon, at 7:48 39. Luk Chun Chung (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 7:53 40. Glenmar Robosa (Philippines), Lpgma, at 7:56 41. Reynaldo Navarro (Philippines), Batang Tagaytay, at 7:59 42. Ting Pong Lam (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 8:01 43. Dor Ming Chau (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 8:12 44. Ericson Obosa (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 8:21 45. Jackie Lloyd Berjamie (Philippines), Lpgma, at 8:43 46. Nicanor Guanzon (Philippines), Smart, at 8:53 47. Daniel Carruthers (Germany), Ccn Collosi New Zealand, at 9:11 48. Michael Geo Ochoa (09:20), Estate – Beacon 49. Thomas Lauterbach (Philippines), Liquigaz, at 9:30 50. Lex Nederlof (Germany), Ccn Collosi New Zealand, at 9:44 51. Guy East (USA), Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 10:22 52. Reynard Butler (South Africa), Emg, at ST 53. Ryan Serapio (Tagaytay), Batang, at 12:02 54. Ip Shing Lam (Hong Kong), Champion System, at 12:41 55. Alex Galvin (South Africa), Emg, at 16:53 56. Lotto Petrus (South Africa), Emg, at 17:56 57. Colin C Robertson (Germany), Cn Collosi New Zealand, at 18:45

Overall, after Stage 5 1. Reid Mumford Kelly Benefit Strategies 2. David Veilleux Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 00:02 3. Dennis Von Nikalk Emgso, at 00:14 4. Santi Barnachea Liqug, at 02:06 5. Tolentino Jay Batan, at 02:43 6. Alfredo Asuncion Batan, at 02:47 7. Tots Oledan Ameri, at 02:49 8. Ryan Anderson Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 03:45 9. Tomas Martinez Smart, at 04:00 10. James Perry Emgso, at 04:01 11. Baler Ravina Liqug, at 04:04 12. Arnel Quirimit Liqug, at 04:24 13. Daniel Asto Batan, at 06:05 14. Ronnel Hualda Ameri, at 06:20 15. Merculio Ramos Geoes, at 06:21 16. Warren Davadilla Geoes, at 06:40 17. Irish Valenzuela Ameri, at 06:44 18. Joel Calderon Smart, at 07:11 19. Cris Joven Ameri, at 08:03 20. Jeffrey Monton Lpgma, at 08:11 21. Chene Hoag Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 08:28 22. Oscar Rendole Smart, at 08:36 23. Guy East Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 09:03 24. Thomas Ashley Ccnco, at 09:15 25. Hilson Mangahis Ameri, at 09:52 26. Renato Sembrano Geoes, at 10:11 27. Sherwin Carera Liqug, at 10:27 28. Arnel Aves Lpgma, at 10:35 29. Michael Ochoa Geoes, at 10:38 30. Emil Pablo Lpgma, at 10:41 31. Michael Naylor Ccnco, at 11:09 32. Albert Primero Lpgma, at 11:16 33. Jesse Anthony Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 11:22 34. Lex Nederlof Ccnco, at 11:34 35. Bryant Sepnio Geoes, at 12:01 36. Joseph Millanes Smart, at 12:16 37. Wai Man Chau Chami, at 12:47 38. Glenmar Robosa Lpgma, at 12:57 39. Lito Atilano Geoes, at 13:21 40. Reynaldo Navarro Batan, at 13:22 41. Jesus Garcia Batan, at 14:02 42. Dor Ming Chau Chami, at 14:35 43. Ericson Obosa Liqug, at 15:23 44. Luk Chun Chung Chami, at 15:37 45. Chan Yat Wai Chami, at 15:38 46. Nicanor Guanzon Smart, at 16:01 47. Reynard Butler Emgso, at 16:20 48. Daniel Carruthers Ccnco, at 16:24 49. Jackie Lloyd Berjamie Lpgma, at 16:31 50. Julius Diaz Ameri, at 16:49 51. Thomas Lauterbach Liqug, at 19:03 52. Ryan Serapio Batan, at 19:50 53. Alex Galvin Emgso, at 23:35 54. Ting Pong Lam Chami, at 24:20 55. Lotto Petrus Emgso, at 25:40 56. Colin Ccnco Robertson 27:14

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Cycling race returns with P10-million Go Philippines Tour 2022

Cycling competition returns with a bang after a two-year absence due to the pandemic with the inaugural staging of the Go Philippines Tour 2022 on Feb. 14 to March 5.

The 16-leg race will span 22 days starting in Davao City and ending at the Burnham Park in Baguio City and will stake a staggering total cash prize of P10 million.

“We know our local cycling fans and riders have been hungry to have another big cycling competition and this is our answer to that,” event director Ric Rodriguez said in Thursday’s launch at the City of Dreams ballroom in Parañaque City.

The race, which seeks to have the same competitive atmosphere as that of previous prestigious local races such as Tour of Luzon and the Marlboro Tour, expects elite and aspiring cyclists to join.

Organizers require each team to field four elite riders and two under-23 cyclists to balance out the competition.

“We want to have high quality races and at the same time discover new talents,” Rodriguez said.

The race also aims to open the curtains of sports tourism in the country that has been affected by the pandemic.

“We want to show that the country is ready and open for tourists and sports fans alike,” said event CEO Marian Romilyn Galanza, who also thanked Senate Sports Committee Chairman Sen. Bong Go for supporting the bikefest.

The race covers 2,643 kilometers with Stage 1 starting from Davao to Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Valencia to Cagayan De Oro, CDO to Butuan City, Ormoc to Tacloban, Tacloban to Borongan, Borongan to Calbayog, Sorsogon to Legazpi, Legazpi to Daet, Daet to Quezon National Forest Park in Atimonan, Lucena to Marikina City, Malolos to Palayan, Palayan to Tarlac, Tarlac to Lingayen, Lingayen to Vigan, Narvacan to Baguio City, and Baguio City Criterium to Burnham Park.

Organizers will also follow strict health and safety protocols that include antigen tests during specific stages. All participants, officials and race personnel are required to be fully vaccinated with negative PCR tests at the start of the race.

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