Tour Down Under bids for ProTour

Tour Down Under promoters are hoping that the UCI's push to expand the ProTour outside of the European continent could mean that its race will bring the world's highest profile racing to South Australia. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) will decide in Germany next week whether to expand its ProTour series to include the Tour Down Under in 2009.

Premier Mike Rann says that ProTour status would put South Australia on the world cycling map. "The Tour Down Under is already the highest ranked cycling road race in the southern hemisphere and we want to take it to even greater heights in the future," Rann said.

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