Get ready for America’s Grand Tour – The 2010 Tour of America

Aqu Sports is committed to organizing a yearly tour from the East Coast to the West Coast in the same vein of the Tour de France. We believe that the country is ready for just such a venture. The Tour de France will always hold the honor of being the preeminent cycling race in the world. It is steeped in history and pride that will be hard to rival. However, the Tour of America will seek to replicate the pride and tradition of this incredible event, but have it staged in the United States.

The time has come for the United States to have its own “Grand Tour.” In the tradition of world-class professional bicycle racing, the 2010 Tour of America will be a 21-stage, 2,200-mile (more than 3,500 km) race that passes through United States beginning on the east coast and finishing on the west coast.

The race route showcases many of America’s natural beauties as riders will make their way from the east coast, through the Midwest, across the Rocky Mountains, ending at the Pacific coast. Major race route cities include New York City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Denver, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and San Francisco, to name a few.
The Tour of America will be one of the largest spectator events in the history of U.S. sports and is expected to become an epic annual event.

Each year The Tour of America will invite close to 189 riders from 21 of the world’s elite cycling teams will compete for their share of a $10 million cash/prize purse, the largest of any international cycling event.

There are two races in the United States that are making headway into the world cycling psyche. They are the Tour de Georgia and The Tour of California. The Tour de Georgia has been in existence for the last 5 years and each of those years has posted record audiences to its event. The Tour of California posted record crowds of 1.3 million people for its event in its first year of existence. This seems to reflect the readiness of the country to embrace something on the national stage. We plan to attract a national audience of 25- 30 million fans.

The economic impact of the Tour de Georgia is estimated to be $26 million for a week long race that covered 600 miles. The Tour of California boasted an economic impact of $100 million to the state. The Tour of America is longer and more grueling. The conservative projected economic impact to the little communities that this event will traverse through is in excess of $500 million.

Get ready for America’s Grand Tour – The 2010 Tour of America.

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