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In a dramatic day of racing where Boris Shpilevsky (Russia) was assured victory in this years Tour of Hainan, a monumental blunder occurred when Shpilevsky made a wheel change with the Nutrixxion Sparkasse team, causing him to receive a two minute penalty for irregular mechanical assistance with another team.  Francisco Ventoso (Carmiooro A-Style) was therefore moved from second on GC to first overall.

Asia's third 2HC race came into the horizon when 135 riders took to the start of the fourth and thus far most celebrated edition of the Tour de Hainan in China from November 11 to 19. It took just four years since its inaugural edition was won by Russian Sergey Kolesnikov in 2006 for this race on the picturesque South China Sea resort island of Hainan to gain and progress into Asia's third 2.HC status race, following in the footsteps of Le Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia and the Tour of Qinghai Lake on the Chinese mainland.

�Champion System�, a company of high quality custom technical apparel, received a �Certificate of Appreciation� from the ACC President on 12 December, 2009 at the venue of the road cycling event during the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong China for its sponsorship to provide all the champion jerseys to every champions of the  Asian Cycling Championships for various types of disciplines.
 

IRAN'S Tabriz Petrochemical Team picked up right where they left off last season when they opened the 2009-2010 UCI Asia Tour season in style.

  The 2008-2009 UCI Asia Tour champion team dominated the first two races of the season, with 28-year old Mehdi Sohrabi taking overall victory after six stages of the Tour of Milad du Nour and his 35-year old veteran teammate Ahad Kazemi Sarai winning the Tour of Azerbaijan. Both races were on the team's home soil in Iran.

Hyung Il, Kim, a former Korean national cycling team coach goes to Bangladesh, Organizer of the SAG on 28thDec 2009 to train the Bangladesh National Cycling Teams (Men & Women) for the 2010 South Asian Games (SAG) which will be held in Khula, Bangladesh from 30thJan to 1stFeb,2010.

The 2010 ACC Congress & ACC Management Committee Meeting at Sharjah, UAE

This is to notify that the 2010 ACC Congress and ACC Management Committee Meeting will take place as follows:

  1. ACC Congress:
      Date: 13th April (Tuesday), 2010           Time: 10:00 hrs (10 a.m.)
      Place: Al Jawhara 1- First Floor, Millennium Hotel, Sharjah

  2. ACC Management Committee Meeting:
      Date: 12th April (Monday), 2010            Time: 15:00 hrs (3 p.m.)
      Place: Boardroom2- Lobby Level, Millennium Hotel, Sharjah

The Asian riders and national cycling teams, most surprisingly, had made marvelous jobs at the UCI Track World Cup held at Beijing from 22nd through 24thJanuary, the No.4 events of the 2009-2010 UCI World Cup series by clutching 7 gold medals out of the 17 specialties competed at the Cup.

Mr. Cho, H. W., ACC President celebrated 뱓he one year countdown to the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games� with his message delivered to GAGOC and people of Guangzhou City and Province, saying 뱋n behalf of the Asian Cycling Confederation and its whole families, I would like to convey my best wishes for a most successful and distinctive Asian Games ever.

Under a UCI Solidarity Program, 4 Road Bikes will be donated to each of DPR Korean, Sri Lankan and Vietnamese Cycling Federation in 2010.

The UCI initially chose those NFs in consultation with the ACC. Significant thing with this arrangement is that the North Korea, in particular, was selected as one of those receiving cycling federations by the ACC. North Korean Cycling Team composed of 2 riders and 2 officials is expected to attend the 2010 Asian Cycling Championships for the 1st time since the 2005 Asian Cycling Championships in Luthiana, India.

Mr. Vatche Zadourian, President of the Lebanese Cycling Federation and Chairman of the ACC Para-Cycling Committee was honorably elected as a member of the Lebanese Olympic Committee (LOC) in March 2010.

  In his letter to Mr. Cho, ACC President, he said, 밒 will do everything in my power to promote cycling in our Region and in our country.�