The Singapore Cycling Federation (SCF) has apologised and pledged to review its processes after it was forced to postpone the OCBC National Championship – Individual Time Trial (ITT) due to an “oversight”. On June 9, the SCF announced on social media that the event...
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Lee Yi Hung, one of more than 80 riders who had already signed up, was frustrated by the postponement. “It feels like all my training has gone to waste because there is very specific training that goes behind preparing for ITT that focuses on 30 to 40 minute bursts of power as compared to three to four hours of endurance for road rides. The rescheduling also means I won’t be able to consider other races or triathlons during the same time period.”
He explained: “Planning for each year’s event actually starts the previous year... we have to submit our applications for permits and approvals to the local authorities at least five weeks before the event date. On this, there was a misstep on our part and we were late in one aspect of the entire road closure approval process, which meant we could not get approval in time to make the event happen on June 25.
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