In its place, a nine-day festival of cycling will be held from January 21 to 29, with organisers to release more details in the coming weeks. Organisers have vowed the event will return in 2023. “We have fully explored all avenues, but unfortunately in the end it was the border closures and quarantine requirements for more than 400 people that make up the international teams that proved to still be too difficult to overcome.” “The Santos Tour Down Under is a much-loved event on the world cycling and Australian sporting calendar and an important economic driver for South Australia, attracting 44,000 people, injecting 742 jobs and more than $66 million into the economy when last held in 2020,” she said. Race organisers announced a short time ago that the flagship event, due to be held in January, would be replaced with a nine-day “festival of cycling”.Įvents SA Executive Director Hitaf Rasheed said international border closures and quarantine requirements made the Tour Down Under too difficult to run. The Tour Down Under has been cancelled for a second year running, with organisers of the state’s international cycling event unable to overcome border closures and quarantine requirements for overseas teams. Rolls-Royce pulls plug on petrol-powered cars.CNN shuts down Australian Facebook page.Better Hills bus services needed to ease Freeway congestion.Adelaide Uni releases ‘confronting’ new savings plan.

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