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Tour de white Rock: Women’s cycling growing big on this weekend’s event

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This weekend is witnessing how women’s cycling is growing each day making the demanding White Rock race a favorite one among both females and males.

 

In total, the event is witnessing three road closures after the instant growth it has experienced, race organizers claim.

 

According to Brian Wiebe, the Tour de White Rock representative, during the last decade, there were many times when the women’s race were at a high risk of being cancelled due to a low number of registrations.

 

A sudden growth

 

However, this is not the case anymore where a sudden growth in women’s race is witnessed during the last couple of years.

 

“Where we’ve really been happy to see the growth is in women’s cycling,” Wiebe says.

 

“The interest on the women’s side of cycling is just huge. It’s not as big in terms of registrations numbers as the men just yet, but it’s really, really, robust.”

 

Today, on the second and last part of the tour, race organizers say that a big part of Marine Drive will be blocked and if you’re ones of the spectators, Wiebe advises to take proper measures due to high temperatures.

 

“The men and women start just around 10 o’clock in the morning so they end up riding the most grueling hills of White Rock around noon time, which is traditionally the hottest time of the day,” he says.

 

“We might not see the pace similar to what we’ve seen at some of the events earlier B.C. Superweek where the temperatures haven’t been as hot.”

 


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