The president of Cycling Tasmania has joined the call for the state to land more elite road races.
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Noel Pearce said Tasmania is hopeful of extending its three-year hosting of the Oceania Road Cycling Championships beyond 2020 and believes the sport's world governing body should be looking at the state.
"This is the only UCI event in Tasmania," Pearce said while operating as a commissaire at Evandale and Railton over the weekend.
"The state lends itself to some of the best road stages in the country but only has the Tour of Tasmania and this so we'd like to see another UCI road event here."
His comments echo those of another highly-experienced cycling official Peter Tomlinson while he was serving as chief commissaire at Tour of Tasmania last November.
Pearce said the state was keen to keep staging the Oceania Cycling Confederation's titles and build on the tourism potential of such events.
"At this stage we are leaving our options open but yes we would like to because we want to expose cycling to as many people as we can and are delighted to be able to host it.
"It's taken a lot of work from Cycling Tasmania and Mersey Valley to put this together but it's a real feather in our cap.
"There is a reluctance from the mainland to host this because they don't think it is financially viable.
"We don't subscribe to that because we see it as a fantastic opportunity and not a money thing."
Pearce added: "South Australia attract 800,000 visitors and make $58 million in a week from the Tour Down Under so it would be nice to get something like that supported in Tasmania."
We'd like to see another UCI road event here
- Cycling Tasmania president Noel Pearce
Tomlinson made a similar call last year, adding that he believed the Tour of Tasmania's queen stage through Gunns Plains was without equal in his 25 years experience as a commissaire.
"This deserves to have UCI status in order to have the likes of Richie Porte taking part," he said.
"The potential is huge. That's why Asian countries invest so much in tours because they see them as an opportunity to promote their country and the same potential for that is here.
"Basically it is down to investment."
Tasmania is confirmed as hosting the continental road titles again next year.