LARGA OUT FOR BIG COMEBACK

After a seven-year hiatus, Larga Pilipinas returns to action with organizers hoping to ride the wave of success of the recent Tour of Luzon and make the sport an annual spectacle not only for the cycling-crazy provinces in Luzon.

- By MARK REY MONTEJO

And to mark its comeback, the organizers have the decided to make the tour's opening leg in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija - a known cycling hotbed on Aug. 2 and will end in mountaintop Baguio on Aug. 7.

Organizers are expecting to surpass the record 10,000 participants they drew the last time Larga held a race seven years ago in Edsa and Marikina.

The 809-kilometer journey spread in six legs is sanctioned by PhilCycling.