The race continues this Thursday with the eighth lap from Douala in the Littoral Region to Kribi in the South Region.
The 2025 Cameroon International Cycling Tour competition resumes this Thursday with the eighth lap following the cancellation of the seventh lap yesterday. The lap will be staged from Douala in the Littoral Region to Kribi in the South Region featuring a distance of 163.1km. The lap is the longest of all the 10 stages of the 2025 competition. The competition will resume with Cameroonian rider, Boris Tientcheu leading on the standing. Organizers cancelled the 106km-long lap seven which was scheduled to be staged in a close circuit format in the Littoral Region yesterday, blaming their decision on poor roads.
The Cameroon Cycling Federation, FECACYCLING said in a statement yesterday that the competition’s jury of commissioners decided to abandon the series after cyclists had refused to start the race insisting that the poor state of the road will not enable them to smoothly compete in the series. “The jury of commissioners, in agreement with the organizers, cancelled the stage and only completed five neutral laps of the circuit. As a result, no classification was drawn up and the classifications at the end of the sixth lap will still apply at the start of lap eight,” the statement posted on the official Facebook page of the Cameroonian cycling governing body, FECACYCLING, said.
FECAYCLING president, Honore Yossi made similar statements in a separate outing. Honore Yossi said the cyclists had refused to compete after going through the traditional reconnaissance phase of the stage as required in criteriums in cycling competitions and complained that the road was not good enough for them to compete. “After consultation with the UCI and the riders, we agreed that instead of cancelling this morning’s event altogether, the riders should do five laps in training mode,” Honore Yossi said in the statement, adding that the organizing body settled on cancelling the lap after consulting with the International Cycling Association, UCI, the sport’s global governing body.
Cameroon National Cycling Team cyclist, Boris Tientcheu enters the Douala-Kribi series maintaining his top position on the general classification. The athlete who has been topping the standing since he won the first lap in Maroua in the Far North Region last week, will maintain his 12 seconds lead on the standing. The Cameroonian will consolidate the ranking because the cancellation of the seventh lap had obliged the organizers of the competition to carry over the final standing that was registered at the end of the sixth lap of the series to the eighth lap.
