The Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge has been postponed to next year. Photo / Supplied
With five weeks to go until the planned date for New Zealand's largest cycling event, organisers have made the tough decision to put it on hold until 2022.
BDO Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge organisers said, in a media release: "After much deliberation and consultation with riders, stakeholders, event partners, and
others, we have made the decision to postpone this year's BDO Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge and move the 44th running of the event to its reserve date of February 19, 2022."
About 5000 riders, 7500 supporters and spectators, along with more than 800 personnel and volunteers attend the event each year.
"With this in mind, the decision has been reached with everyone's health and wellbeing at the forefront, along with the current uncertainty around the ability to host large-scale events and engage in nationwide travel in the immediate future," the release said.
"We have not reached our decision to postpone the event lightly. However, after much careful consideration, we have concluded that hosting a February event is in the best interests of our cycling community given the challenging and uncertain environment facing the event industry in the near term."
