Tour de Georgia cycling race set for April 2003
Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Walter Woods
Gov. Barnes has announced the creation of Tour de Georgia, a week-long professional class cycling race across Georgia to benefit the Georgia Cancer Coalition.
Atlanta Business Chronicle first reported the story about the race in June 2001: http://atlanta.bcentral.com/atlanta/stories/2001/06/18/story3.html
The event will be April 22 -27, 2003 and will cost about $3 million to put on. Most of the funding will come from corporate sponsorships. Tour de Georgia will be annual event each spring and will be one of five World Tour events. The race route for Tour de Georgia will change from year to year, but will always traverse a large portion of Georgia. The route of the inaugural race is being finalized and will be announced at a later date.
The race will have estimated impact of $30 million to Georgia over next five years and it will be seen by an estimated 1 million spectators and 50 million television viewers .
John Rice, CEO of GE Power Systems, will chair the Tour de Georgia board. Other board members are Cox Enterprises CEO Jim Kennedy, Cancer Coalition Director Russ Toal, CNN Sports President Mike Plant and Chateau Elan founder Don Panoz.
The Cancer Coalition is public-private coalition focused on building a coordinated statewide network of cancer care to make Georgia a national leader in treatment and research.
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