VETERANS Ronald Oranza and Jermyn Prado get the honor to formally be the first to ride the Tagaytay City Velodrome as Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and PhilCycling president Abraham \u201cBambol\u201d Tolentino inaugurates the brand new indoor cycling facility on Monday (June 23).<\/p>\n
Oranza and Prado, both multiple medal winners in international competitions, will circle the 250-meter indoor and International Cycling Union-standard velodrome waving both the Philippine and PhilCycling flags during the ceremony that highlights the joint celebration of the Olympic and World Bicycle Day and Tagaytay City\u2019s 87th<\/sup>\u00a0Charter Day.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is to formally and officially announce the formal opening of the Tagaytay City Velodrome, the first of its kind in the country and one that\u2019s of UCI standard,\u201d said Tolentino, also the mayor of Tagaytay City which also has competition- and international-standard facilities for BMX Racing and Freestyle, Skateboarding and combat sports.<\/p>\n The celebration will be staged amid the postponement of the Baguio City-Tagaytay City PhilCycling Classic\u2014a 292-km endurance road race among the top 30 finishers in last summer\u2019s Tour of Luzon: The Great Revival\u2014that was supposed to start at Camp John Hay and finish in front of the velodrome also on Monday.<\/p>\n The Baguio City-Tagaytay City PhilCycling Classic was moved to November 11 this year.<\/p>\n The weather has become unpredictable with scattered thunder storms and monsoon rains prevailing and with the Metro Pacific Tollsways Corp. expected to do unscheduled repairs in some sections of the North Luzon Expressway, the endurance classic had to be postponed.<\/p>\n San Miguel Corp. Infrastructure\u2014operator of the TPLEX, Skyway and SLEX\u2014has earlier welcomed the race on its expressways.<\/p>\n Come November 11, Tolentino said the rescheduled Baguio City-Tagaytay City PhilCycling Classic will highlight the Send Off and Pep Rally for Team Philippines to the 33rd<\/sup>\u00a0Southeast Asian Games in Thailand in December.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are setting the pace for a renaissance in Philippine cycling in track discipline and we\u2019ll be marking our cyclists\u2019 return to the velodrome in the SEA Games,\u201d said Tolentino, who entered an entry in each of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s omnium in Thailand.<\/p>\n Also on Monday, the POC will oversee the signing of contracts for the Olympic Solidarity Scholarship and Grants Program with nine athletes signing up for training scholarships for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and 12 more for the Support Grant for Continental Athletes.<\/p>\n The Philippines last won two gold medals on the track in the SEA Games\u2019 2007 edition in Nakhon Ratchasima\u2014Victor Espiritu in points race and Alfie Catalan in individual pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VETERANS Ronald Oranza and Jermyn Prado get the honor to formally be the first to ride the Tagaytay City Velodrome as Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and PhilCycling president Abraham \u201cBambol\u201d Tolentino inaugurates the brand new indoor cycling facility on Monday (June 23). Oranza and Prado, both multiple medal winners in international competitions, will circle the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-philcycling-classic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinoystep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}