The or­gan­is­ing com­mit­tee of the Tour of T&T In­de­pen­dence Cy­cle Clas­sic will be pay­ing trib­ute to past icons in cy­cling by nam­ing each of its ten stages af­ter a for­mer hero. The fourth edi­tion of the tour is sanc­tioned by the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF), and has been re­vived by for­mer na­tion­al cy­clist, An­tho­ny "Bike Doc­tor" Com­mis­sion, in or­der to join the cel­e­bra­tions of T&T's 50 years of in­de­pen­dence and is set to ped­al off from Au­gust 19 to Sep­tem­ber 2012. The race is en­ti­tled "The Uni­ty Race" and is the biggest road cy­cling event in the Caribbean since it fea­tures 12 stages. As such, it has al­ready been dubbed the "Tour de France of the Caribbean." Some 600 cy­clists from all over the re­gion and the world are ex­pect­ed to turn out for the event.

CY­CLING STAL­WARDS TO BE HO­N­OURED

Stage 1: George Ter­ry (first cy­clist to win a medal at an

in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el)

Stage 2: Noel Luces (cy­clist/coach)

Stage 3: Leslie King (cy­clist/coach)

Stage 4: Lau­rie Rogers (cy­clist/ad­min­is­tra­tor, among the first

Sport Hall of Fame in­ductees)

Stage 5: Nathan Ha­jal (cy­clist)

Stage 6: Bill Hugh­es (coach)

Stage 7: Fitzroy Hoyte (cy­clist)

Stage 8: Comp­ton Gon­salves (cy­clist/found­ing mem­ber of the

T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion)

Stage 9: Ahamad Charles (cy­clist)

Stage 10: Cedric Weekes (cy­clist/ad­min­is­tra­tor)