Those behind the unsuccessful push to keep the Oceania Road Championships in Tasmania have revealed they had assembled more than enough volunteers to keep the event.
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The championships, which were officially lost to Tasmania earlier this week, were ultimately lost more so due to issues involved with transferring event funding to the new organising group from Cycling Tasmania, who along with the Mersey Valley Devonport Cycling Club, withdrew from hosting the event, with both those organisations saying they weren't confident they could gather enough volunteers.
University Cycling Club's president James McKee on Friday said his club, along with Launceston City Cycling Club, City of Burnie Cycling Club and Hobart Wheelers, along with other key cycling stakeholders, had looked to work with Cycling Tasmania initially to run the event.
When that idea had been rejected, the group then elected to go directly to Cycling Australia and the Oceania Cycling Confederation to run it themselves, an idea that McKee said those two governing bodies supported, but time ran out.
McKee said the clubs had assembled more than 100 volunteers, with six to eight moto scouts, as well as commissaires and medical staff.