Cycling: ECOWAS Tour Takes Off In Lagos

After a successful organisation of the 4th UCI Africa Para-Cycling Championship 2011, the gear has shifted to yet another blast display of pure cycling skills in next year’s ECOWAS Tour, which will take off in Lagos State, Nigeria, through Benin, Togo, Ghana and finally into La Cote D’Ivoire from the 13-20 February, 2012.

Ghana made a quality mark in the first edition held two years ago, with a narrow loss on the prestigious Yellow Jersey won by Team Burkina Faso.

ECOWAS’ endorsement of this Tour is necessitated by the sub-region’s guest to ensure border flexibility among member states.

In furtherance of this tour, a three member delegation headed by the Vice-President of the Ghana Cycling Federation, Teye Doku, Shaaban Mohammed – Technical Director, DSP. Antwi- Ababio of Police MTTU and Sam Ayer of Ghana Immigration were in Burkina Faso for the Technical briefing ahead of the event next year.