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Organisers cite rider safety as a concern, with flooding devastating parts of southeastern Australia

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Australia’s oldest stage race, the Jayco Herald Sun Tour, has been cancelled for the third year in a row and will not run in 2023. 

Both the men’s and women’s editions of the race, originally scheduled to take place in February, were previously postponed in 2021 and 2022 due to Covid-19, with the race organisers now citing logistical, planning and workforce issues. 

“This has not been an easy decision or an easy process to arrive at this point,” said Jayco Herald Sun Tour chair Tom Salom in a statement. “As custodians of this historic race we are disappointed that it will not be proceeding in 2023. 

“We thank the government and industry stakeholders for their collective efforts and we are acutely aware of the importance of this as an event across the state.”

In a statement shared with CyclingTips , the race organisers also referred to “genuine health and work safety issues for riders and staff” in their rationale for cancelling the 2023 event. 

No further clarification as to what the issues were was offered. However, the race organisers' job has not been made any easier by widespread flooding that has affected large parts of southeastern Australia in recent weeks. There are currently emergency flood warnings across the state of Victoria, where the Jayco Herald Sun Tour is held, and a number of towns have already been evacuated. 

The floods have also ripped apart roads in the region, with some major highways now impassable. 

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Organisers of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour have said they will turn to planning the 2024 edition of the race, when they hope it will return to Australia’s summer cycling calendar.

First run in 1952, the last winner of the five-stage men’s event was Jai Hindley, the now reigning Giro d’Italia champion , who claimed victory in 2020. Former Australian rider Lucy Kennedy won the two-day women’s race the same year. 

Other previous winners include Simon Gerrans, Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins. 

Though the Jayco Herald Sun Tour continues to leave a hole in the country’s racing calendar, 2023 will see the return of the Tour Down Under, the opening WorldTour race of the season. Another event that was shelved due to Covid-19 was the one-day Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, which will also be reinstated next year.

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The 2015 Jayco Herald Sun Tour kicks off tonight with the race Prologue around Melbourne’s Southbank area. Stage 1 follows on 5th February, with the race finishing atop Arthurs Seat at the end of Stage 4 on Sunday February 8th.

This is the 62nd edition of Australia’s oldest stage race. The Sun Tour was conceived in 1952 by the Sun newspaper and the League of Victorian Wheelmen (professional cycling body), and has been reported as the first professional stage race in Victoria since the Centenary Thousand Classic was held in 1934.

Race promotions from 1962 claim that the Sun Tour was “the first to employ modern techniques to road racing” such as: short wave radio from car to car; car to helicopter and plane; radioed commentary to towns; cordless radio microphones for crowd interviews; colour identification codes; daily race bulletins; picture grams of race highlights; race finishes in Melbourne and regional towns.

Since that time the Sun Tour has grown into one of the premier events on the Australian cycling calendar. It has run every year except for 2010 when Geelong hosted the UCI World Road Championships, and 2012 when the UCI World Track Championships came to Melbourne.

The list of past winners includes the cream of Australian road cycling, from the present day back to the 1950s. Well-known Australian Sun Tour winners of the modern era have included Stuart O’Grady, Simon Gerrans, Baden Cooke, Matt Wilson, and Simon Clarke.

And while winners from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s may not be as widely known beyond the cycling world, it is fair to say that riders of the likes of Peter Panton (1959, 60), Russell Mockridge (1957), Barry Waddell (1964-68), Graham McVilly (1971, 73-74), John Trevorrow (1975, 77, 79), and Terry Hammond (1978, 82), and brothers Shane and Gary Sutton (1983, 84) played a significant part in making the Sun Tour the revered race it is today.

There have of course also been the international riders who have noticed the Sun Tour of Victoria and travelled here to try and win it. And they have been successful in doing so. Since 1985, the Sun Tour winner’s jersey has also graced the shoulders of riders from Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Kyrgyzstan a total of 19 times.

The official Tour website reports that after Bradley Wiggins won the Sun Tour in 2009, he said “If I was going to pick a tour to win other than the Tour de France, the Jayco Herald Sun Tour is the one” . Wiggins’ father, Gary, was a successful Australian professional cyclist during the 1970s and 80s.

This year, the Sun Tour hosts teams from the USA (UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling), Italy (Androni Giocattoli) and two teams from Great Britain (the National team, and Condor JLT). And the 16 teams contesting the race include a number of elite international riders.

The first Sun Tour in 1952 was reportedly the brainchild of Laurie Jones who at the time was President of the Australian Federal Cycling Council. It was a six-day race over 894 miles, and it started on 7 October 10:30am at Parliament House in Melbourne.

Reports of the day put the rider numbers at between 56 and 59 (with 18 finishers), and it was estimated that half a million people saw the Tour through Victoria (though official numbers are hard to verify). The inaugural Sun Tour winner was the famous Keith Rowley in 42hr 57min 55secs, with his brother Max second at 49 seconds, and Jack Hoobin (Australia’s first World Road Champion) third some distance away at 9min 6secs.

The total prize money that year was £1500. By only five years later in 1957 it had increased to £2475, but in 1966 the prize purse totalled £3000 – hardly a meterioric rise.

Sun Tour Evolution

For most of its life the Sun Tour was always held during October – the early January scheduling in 2013 and this year’s February timing are relatively new innovations.

The Tour organisers have shifted the race timing to the Australian summer in a bid to attract greater holiday crowds, and to coincide better with the international cycling calendar – marking the beginning rather than the end of the international professional season.

The Sun Tour now comes after the other two major road events – the National Road Championships in Ballarat around mid-January, and the Tour Down Under in Adelaide and surrounds at the end of January. Add to this the very successful Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race , a one-day classic which looks set to continue.

Current Sun Tour Race Director John Trevorrow explains the significance of this move: “In the long term the change to the Australian summer will definitely work. I have always said it needed to be in summer, not last race of the year where everyone was tired and finishing up after a long season.”

Five time Sun Tour winner Barry Waddell agrees: “The Sun Tour is becoming more important because of the date change. Our European riders can use it as building block now for their season ahead, like the Tour Down Under is an important part of the season.”

Trevorrow, multiple national road champion and Olympian and Commonwealth games representative, knows the race inside out. “My earliest memories were of sitting at home in Morwell with the Sun Tour riders billeted at our place (Dad was a pro-cyclist). I used to listen to their Sun Tour stories, and I grew up dreaming about riding that race someday.”

And rode it he did. Trevorrow rode in eight Tour’s altogether and won it three times in 1975, 1977 and 1979. He brings that impressive background to the race today, and many regard his appointment as Race Director a positive move for the future.

The Sun Tour format has changed somewhat over the years. It was always much longer in distance and stage numbers. The Tour was typically a nine-day race, and had as many as 18 to 20 stages (i.e. two stages per day, one morning and one in the afternoon), and would total 1000-1205 miles in length.

By comparison, the modern day version of the Sun Tour is very different – fewer stages, fewer days, and less distance. This may be a case of the old show business adage, “Always leave them wanting more”. Trevorrow also cites recent pressures from the world governing body to cut back race distances to look after the riders more.

John Trevorrow is confident that the Sun Tour is a better race these days: “Its definitely a better event now. We used to have much smaller fields, say 8 teams with 3-4 riders. And no-one was around because of the stage courses, except for the stage finishes where the whole town would come out. It is also now a very serious event, and a very important race for the Australian riders. It means a lot to them.”

Again, Barry Waddell agrees: “Yes, it is completely different these days, for the better. Its not the endurance race that it was. I don’t mean its necessarily easier because the riders are fresher so they go harder, and there’s more riders now - better riders in today’s fields. When we were racing the Sun Tour with much smaller fields, there was simply nowhere to hide…you’d be out in the breeze all day. Back then it really was a marathon ride…we used to finish in the dark.”

“They’re trying now keep it in front of the people which is what they should do. Road racing can be very exciting, but no-one sees it unless you have cameras etc. In our day with the stages all over Victoria some of the best riding was done away from the crowds…often you’d be sprinting for the line, or on a breakaway, and the only one’s there to see it would be a farmer and his cows by the roadside!”

And the rider numbers have varied over the years too. Compared to the 2015 field of nearly 100 across 16 teams, numbers were always much smaller in years gone by (some years the numbers were as few as 24). For one, there were simply fewer professionals back in the early days of the race – days when the divide between amateur and pro cyclists in Australia caused much controversy and debate.

The traditional timing of the Tour in October probably also discouraged some professional riders from entering at the end of the season, when many were getting ready for a break. Waddell explains: “In my time there were few actual professionals in the true sense of the word. There wasn’t enough money in it for most of us, so we had to work too. It was always work first and the bike was a secondary consideration really”.

Sun Tour Curiosities

Like many of the World’s oldest cycling races, the Sun Tour of Victoria has had its fair share of the amusing and the amazing. Beyond the stage results, the silverware and prize money, and the winners are a host of interesting things that have transpired over the years.

Consider these examples:

• In the 1952 Tour, Roy Underwood (the youngest rider in the field at 19) had made a £50 bet with his father that he would finish the six days. Each day he would arrive at the finishing towns in the dark long after the other riders had come in. And on the last day, despite a search party being sent to find him in the dark again, he finished that race and won his bet.
• The Sun Tour also used to be referred to as the ‘Fun Tour’ by some of the riders and officials, owing to the post race gatherings at whatever town hotel/pub was open that night at the end of any particular stage (_“In the old days everyone would go to the pub, and the riders who were serious about the race would only have 2-3 pots” _John Trevorrow).
• In Stage 4 of the 1954 Tour (Ararat to Preston 179 miles) the riders were all picked up and transported in cars 64miles to ensure the stage would finish on time in Preston by 4:30pm.
• In 1954 Angelo Catalano won a share in an Omeo district gold mine for winning Stage 6 (Beechworth to Omeo 103miles).
• In 1957 the Tour was changed from a massed start to graded handicap divided into three groups at start. Teams were not to appear in the Sun Tour until 1961, when five teams of six started.
• The Sun Tour sponsorship was mostly limited to that from the Herald Sun newspaper (‘The Sun News Pictorial’ as it was called then) in the early days, and they were against anyone else getting free advertising – to the extent that there was reportedly a move one year to get riders to remove decals/stickers from bike frames.
• Media promotion of the Sun Tour has always been a serious issue, as the following quote from Tour Manager in 1966 shows: “The time controls are rather difficult to overcome; we know the bike riders don’t like stops but they all like money – so we stop. We are trying to sell the bike riders to the public and by short stops and interviews with the top boys, it must help – we wont stop under £15 and then only for say 2 or 3 minutes.” (Bill Long, 1966. Tour Manager Speaks. The Australian Cyclist, December, 14).
• The quest for bigger crowds has also been a constant goal for Sun Tour organisers, with select stages in country towns around Victoria, suburban Melbourne, Shopping centres including Southland and Chadstone (imagine doing 30 laps around the car park!), various velodromes and boardt-racks, motor race tracks (Calder park, Sandown), and Beach Road. Time trials in the Melbourne CBD have also been used previously.

History in the making?

This year, with Simon Gerrans recovering from injury much of the focus is on his Orica Green Edge teammate Simon Clarke . Clarke won the Sun Tour last year and is attempting to go back to back this year.

If Clarke claims a second successive Sun Tour title he will be only the fifth person ever to do so, putting him in the company of Peter Panton (1959-60), Barry Waddell (1964-68), Graham McVilly (1971, 1973-74), and Simon Gerrans (2005-06).

It is a shame that 2015 Australian Road Champion Heinrich Haussler is not on the start list this year - only a few people have won the Australian National Road Championship title and the Sun Tour in the same year (i.e. Russell Mockridge in 1957, Barry Waddell in 1964 and 1968, Graham McVilly in 1971, Peter Besanko in 1976, John Trevorro w in 1979, and Clyde Sefton in 1981).

If Simon Clarke’s early season form continues over the next few days, history could well be made again this Sunday 8 February on the final stage at Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. 20 year old teammate Caleb Ewan might not be far away from the podium either.

Such things are part of the appeal and beauty of cycling races like the Sun Tour – one of Australia’s heritage cycling events. Long may it continue.

Final word must go to Barry Waddell, the most successful Sun Tour rider ever and regarded by many as one of Australia’s best ever all-round cyclists due to his success on the track and road. “The Sun Tour was our pinnacle. It was the bike race everyone wanted to ride in and win. And I hope one day it will become a pinnacle again. From the look of things today, I’m pretty sure it will.”

This is an edited version of a piece that first appeared at Cycling Tips .

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Herald Sun Tour

The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria , sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually over five days in February. It is named after the Herald Sun , Melbourne's only daily tabloid newspaper. It was originally known as the Sun Tour after The Sun News-Pictorial , and changed its name when The Sun News-Pictorial merged with The Herald in 1990.

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In 1952 the first general classification winner was Keith Rowley, a Maffra sheep farmer, in a time of 42 h 57 min 55 s. The first King of the Mountain and Sprint champion was Jack (John) McDonough from Coburg .

Australian cyclists dominated the first 30 editions of the race, before its status rose and began attracting overseas stars. By the year 2000, the race had shifted to October and Australia's cyclists racing in Europe began to compete in the race. The resulting rise in the event's standard saw the race become rated by the UCI for the first time in 2005. Several notable Australian cyclists have won the General classification including Stuart O'Grady in 2008, Baden Cooke in 2002, Neil Stephens in 1986, and Russell Mockridge in 1957.

The 2004 race was conducted from 14 to 24 October 2004 and involved 85 cyclists in seventeen teams of five. Thirteen stages were completed with a total distance of 1110.7   km, 119 intermediate sprints and 37 hill climbs, including the two category one climbs of Mount Baw Baw and in the Otway Ranges . Swedish rider Jonas Ljungblad won the General classification in the time of 26 h 39 min 55 s. Karl Menzies won the sprint classification and Phillip Thuaux won the Mountains classification.

After the 2009 race, the organisers of the Herald Sun Tour proposed moving the race from its traditional October date to February, with no edition in 2010. Cycling Australia approved the move, [1] but in the face of opposition from the UCI, [2] the plans never came to fruition. In the end, the 2010 race was "held over" due to the 2010 UCI Road World Championships being held in Geelong and Melbourne , and the race returned to the calendar in October 2011. [3] The UCI accepted a change of date the following year, with a January 2013 date instead of October 2012, but downgraded the race from 2.1 to a National Event, preventing most professional teams from across the world from taking part. [4]

The next edition of the Tour was held from 5–9 February 2014, and regained a UCI 2.1 ranking, permitting top level trade teams to again compete. [5] Due to numerous bushfires across Victoria the last stage of the race was cancelled, with Orica–GreenEDGE rider Simon Clarke declared the winner. [6]

The 63rd edition of the Tour got a huge profile boost when reigning Tour de France champion Chris Froome of Team Sky confirmed he would be starting his 2016 season at the event, having previously participated in 2008 with the Barloworld team where he finished 4th overall. Froome won the overall title on the final stage on Arthurs Seat, making him the first defending Tour de France champion to win the race, with teammate Peter Kennaugh finishing second and Damien Howson of Orica-GreenEdge placing third. He also took the mountains classification. [7]

The 64th edition of the race was won by Damien Howson of Orica–Scott . [8]

The 65th edition of the Herald Sun Tour was won by Esteban Chaves of the World Tour ranked Mitchelton–Scott team. Michelton Scott dominated the general classification of the 2018 edition with teammates Cameron Meyer (2nd) and previous winner Damien Howson (3rd) rounding out the final podium. [9]

The 66th edition of the race was won by Dylan van Baarle of Team Sky . Rounding out the podium were Nick Schultz of Mitchelton–Scott and Michael Woods of EF Education First . [10]

In August 2020, the 2021 edition was cancelled due to the uncertainty and unpredictability caused by the impact of COVID-19 . The event will be rescheduled to February 2022. [11]

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• ↑ The Age , "Herald Sun Tour bid appears doomed", 23 January 2010, , accessed 30 May 2011
• ↑ Leo Schlink, "2011 Jayco Herald Sun Tour back with a bang", The Herald Sun , 25 March 2011, , accessed 30 May 2011
• ↑ "Gerrans questions lack of UCI ranking for Jayco Herald Sun Tour", Velonation , , accessed 23 December 2012
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Maine historian Bob Greene (left) with Delilah Poupore, the head of Heart of Biddeford and member of the local chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. Eloise Goldsmith / Courier

BIDDEFORD – There’s an interesting story from the time that the celebrated African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass visited Biddeford in 1855.

Douglass went into a local barbershop hoping to get a shave, but was turned away by the barber, who was Black himself – a person named Mr. Bunker who was originally from Ethiopia.

Mr. Bunker was afraid he would lose his white customers if he served Douglass, according to historian and Portland native Bob Greene.

In researching the episode, Greene said that he discovered that Mr. Bunker eventually moved to Canada. “What I found interesting is that Mr. Bunker is listed as white in the Census, both in the United States, here in Biddeford, and … (in) Canada,” Greene said.

The anecdote – a window into America’s complicated racial and ethnic politics – was one of many insights shared during the Biddeford Saco Area Black History Walking Tour on May 4.

The tour, organized by the local chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – an organization that mobilizes white people to advance racial justice – served as a celebration of the area’s Black history, an unearthing of the area’s complicity in slavery, and a chance for local students to engage in local history. The downtown community and business development groups Heart of Biddeford and Saco Main Street also helped organize the event. Advertisement

The walk was held the same day as “Jane’s Walk” – an annual festival held in some communities that’s inspired by the community activist Jane Jacobs.

“The tour holds a special place within the national celebration of community activist Jane Jacobs, aptly fitting into the framework of “Jane’s Walk” on May 4th,” according to a press release sent out by one of the organizers.

Greene, the historian, was joined by Anatole Brown, the program and education manager at the Saco Museum and Richmon Victorino, a junior at Biddeford High School in leading the over 80-person crowd through the area’s history.

Victorino was looped into the tour by his former AP World History teacher, Andrew Reddy, who had Victorino and two other students prepare materials for the tour.

“I did not know that we indulged in slave trade this heavily in the mills,” said Victorino, who called the research process enlightening and interesting.

The cotton mills established in the 19th century in Biddeford would produce fabric from cotton picked by enslaved people. Advertisement

Anatole Brown (left), education and program manager at the Saco Museum, and Richmon Victorino, a junior at Biddeford High School, guide listeners through a tour of local Black history. Eloise Goldsmith / Courier

“They did not solely produce high quality cotton, they also produced low quality cotton, also known as ‘Negro cloth,’ (which) was solely used (to create) essential clothing for slaves,” Victorino shared on the tour.

Reddy, who was at the tour, said that he and other teachers in his department put an emphasis on telling history through diverse perspectives.

“When we are introducing primary sources to students … I’m mindful of saying ‘where are the voices?’ Where were the women? Where are the Black voices? Where are the Asian voices? Where the Native American voices”,” he said. “(I) try to find those in everything that we research.”

Anatole Brown of the Saco Museum also shared some more recent history during a portion of the tour.

Saco’s original name – Pepperrellborough – comes from William Pepperrell, a war hero and slave owner who in the early 1700s purchased land stretching from Kittery to where Portland stands today, according to Brown. Although Saco was renamed in 1805 , the name Pepperell (spelled slightly differently) has stuck around.

In 2020, following the police killing of George Floyd, there was an effort to try to drop all Pepperell name associations (such as finding a new name for Pepperell Square in Saco) because the family owned slaves, though it was ultimately unsuccessful, Brown said.

Isaac Kinzambi, a Biddeford man who is originally from Africa (he declined to specify where in Africa, pointing out that country borders on the continent are largely a product of European colonialism), came for part of the tour with two friends who were visiting him from New York.

The three expressed that they wished more Black community members had turned out for the tour – the vast majority of attendees were white – but were still glad they had come.

“It’s important to know about Black people in Maine. It seems that we are few, but as we’ve learned here, we have been here for (a) long, long (time),” Kinzambi saod.

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These are the countries where TikTok is already banned

As a TikTok ban moved closer Wednesday, TikTok creators like Caleb Simpson are planning for what’s next. Simpson is known for his home tour series where he approaches a person on the street or celebrity and asks for a tour of their home. He said a third of his income comes from the app, where he has more than 8 million followers. For creators like Simpson, the ban would more than impact their livelihood, the app is also where many creators have built relationships and created memories.

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LONDON (AP) — TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new law threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the biggest blow yet to the popular video-sharing app, which has faced various restrictions around the world.

TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries and from government-issued devices in a number of others, due to official worries that the app poses privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

Those fears are reflected in the U.S. law, which is the culmination of long-held bipartisan fears in Washington that China’s communist leaders could force ByteDance to hand over U.S. user data, or influence Americans by suppressing or promoting certain content. TikTok has long maintained that it doesn’t share data with the Chinese government and its CEO has taken a defiant stance, vowing to fight back.

Here are the places that have partial or total bans on TikTok:

AFGHANISTAN

TikTok has been banned since 2022, along with videogame PUBG, after the country’s Taliban leadership decided to forbid access on the grounds of protecting young people from “being misled.”

TikTok is not allowed on devices issued by the Australian federal government. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said he made the decision after getting advice from the country’s intelligence and security agencies.

The National Security Council decided last month to indefinitely ban TikTok from devices owned or paid for by the federal government. The ban was issued on a temporary basis last year on worries about cybersecurity, privacy and misinformation. Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said it was based on warnings from the country’s state security service and cybersecurity center.

Devices issued by the federal government are forbidden from using TikTok. Officials cited an “unacceptable” risk to privacy and security and said the app would be removed from devices and employees blocked from downloading it.

TikTok has never been available in mainland China , a fact that CEO Shou Chew has mentioned in testimony to U.S. lawmakers. ByteDance instead offers Chinese users Douyin, a similar video-sharing app that follows Beijing’s strict censorship rules. TikTok also ceased operations in Hong Kong after a sweeping Chinese national security law took effect.

Denmark’s Defense Ministry banned its employees from having TikTok on their work phones, ordering staffers who have installed it to remove the app from devices as soon as possible. The ministry said the reasons for the ban included both “weighty security considerations” as well as “very limited work-related need to use the app.”

EUROPEAN UNION

The European Parliament, European Commission and the EU Council, the 27-member bloc’s three main institutions, have imposed bans on TikTok on staff devices. Under the European Parliament’s ban, lawmakers and staff were also advised to remove the TikTok app from their personal devices.

“Recreational” use of TikTok and other social media apps like Twitter and Instagram on government employees’ phones has been banned because of worries about insufficient data security measures. The French government didn’t name specific apps but noted the decision came after other governments took measures targeting TikTok.

India imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps like messaging app WeChat in 2020 over privacy and security concerns. The ban came shortly after a clash between Indian and Chinese troops at a disputed Himalayan border killed 20 Indian soldiers and injured dozens. The companies were given a chance to respond to questions on privacy and security requirements but the ban was made permanent in 2021.

TikTok isn’t entirely banned in the sprawling, populous Southeast Asian nation, only its online retail function, after the authorities clamped down on e-commerce transactions carried out on social media platforms in a bid to protect small businesses.

Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics tweeted that he deleted his TikTok account and that the app is also prohibited from official foreign ministry smartphones.

NETHERLANDS

The Dutch central government banned apps including TikTok from employee work phones citing data security concerns. A government statement did not name TikTok specifically but said civil servants are discouraged from having apps “from countries with an offensive cyber program against the Netherlands and/or Dutch interests installed and used on their mobile work devices.”

The Himalayan country imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” and goodwill and blaming it for a “flow of indecent materials.” Authorities ordered the telecom company to block access to the app.

NEW ZEALAND

Lawmakers in New Zealand and staff at the nation’s Parliament are prohibited from having the TikTok app on their work phones, following advice from government cybersecurity experts. The app was removed from all devices with access to the parliamentary network, although officials can make special arrangements for anybody who needs TikTok to perform their democratic duties.

The Norwegian parliament banned Tiktok on work devices after the country’s Justice Ministry warned the app shouldn’t be installed on phones issued to government employees. The Parliament’s speaker said TikTok shouldn’t be on devices that have access to the assembly’s systems and should be removed as quickly as possible. The country’s capital Oslo and second largest city Bergen also urged municipal employees to remove TikTok from their work phones.

Pakistani authorities have temporarily banned TikTok at least four times since 2020, citing concerns that the app promotes immoral content.

The government ordered telecom companies to block access to TikTok, along with messaging app Telegram and gambling platform 1XBET. Officials said they were concerned that the platforms could spread extremist content, nude images and other material seen as offensive to Somali culture and Islam.

Taiwan imposed a public sector ban on TikTok after the FBI warned that the app posed a national security risk. Government devices, including mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers, are not allowed to use Chinese-made software, which includes apps like TikTok, its Chinese equivalent Douyin, or Xiaohongshu, a Chinese lifestyle content app.

UNITED KINGDOM

British authorities banned TikTok from mobile phones used by government ministers and civil servants. Officials said the ban was a “precautionary move” on security grounds and doesn’t apply to personal devices. The British Parliament followed up by banning TikTok from all official devices and the “wider parliamentary network.” The semi-autonomous Scottish government and London City Hall also banned TikTok from staff devices. The BBC urged staff to delete TikTok from corporate devices unless they’re using it for editorial and marketing reasons.

UNITED STATES

U.S. authorities ordered government agencies to delete TikTok from federal devices and systems over data security concerns. More than half of the 50 U.S. states also have banned the app from official devices, as have Congress and the U.S. armed forces. Montana’s efforts to bring in a state-wide ban failed, as did a proposal in Virginia to block kids from using it.

Herald Sun Tour cancelled for 2022

Men's and women's Australian races pulled from the calendar due to COVID-19 uncertainty

The men’s and women’s editions of the Herald Sun Tour stage race in Australia have both been cancelled for 2022, with the next edition pushed back until 2023. 

The news follows the announcement made by the Tour Down Under to scale back their WorldTour ambitions for a second straight year due to COVID-19 restrictions and once again hold smaller, regional events next January. 

This will be the second year running that the Herald Sun Tour races have been cancelled after they were pulled from the calendar in 2021. 

The Herald Sun Tour is one of the oldest stage races on the Australian road calendar, with its roots dating back to the first edition in 1952. Both the men’s and women’s races typically follow on from the Tour Down Under and take place in February.

Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Race off early season calendar again in 2022 Men's and women's editions of Herald Sun Tour postponed until 2022 2021 Tour Down Under cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Despite plans for the Australia to ease some international travel in the next few months, the race organisers at the Herald Sun Tour have made the difficult decision to pull their 2022 races from the racing calendar on the grounds of public health. Unlike in Europe and the United States, restrictions of inter-border travel in Australia are unpredictable and restrictive due to cases of COVID-19.

"We are proud of our history as the country's oldest cycling stage race, however the unpredictability that COVID-19 brings to our event presents too many challenges for us to proceed next year. In particular, the quarantine restrictions that come with Covid made it very difficult to attract the best international riders," said Jayco Herald Sun Tour Chairman Tom Salom. "We have not taken this decision lightly, and our team will continue to examine all possibilities in a bid to resume racing in 2023. We thank all government and industry stakeholders, sponsors, teams, riders, officials and fans for their loyal and ongoing support of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour and Women’s Herald Sun Tour, and we look forward to racing down a street near you in 2023."

Jai Hindley won the last held men’s Herald Sun Tour in 2020. Other previous winners of the men's race include Chris Froome, Bradley Wiggins, Simon Gerrans, Baden Cooke, Udo Bolts, Adri van der Poel, and John Trevorrow.

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Gear up and get ready for the cycling event of the year, Ride Melbourne.

The City of Melbourne is proud to support this free, community event. We’re committed to making Melbourne one of the world’s great cycling cities: riding a bike is an environmentally responsible way to get around, takes the pressure off our public transport system – and it’s a great way to get fit.

Ride Melbourne brings our cycling community together and celebrates our city’s love of this popular pursuit. This family-friendly event is perfect for all ages and all abilities. Keen riders will be given an unique opportunity to whiz along the Jayco Herald Sun Tour circuit, just a few hours before the world’s cycling elite battle it out for the coveted yellow jersey. Take a leisurely pace or get those pedals pumping as you wind your way through closed city roads, minus the traffic hassles, and take in the spectacular city scenery.

After the ride, relax trackside and soak up the atmosphere of the festival hub in the lush surrounds of the Botanical Gardens.

Enjoy live music, free kids’ activities, food trucks, plus workshops, education sessions and much more.

Congratulations to the organisers on this fantastic event.

Ride Melbourne, a FREE community cycling event, returns to Melbourne on Sunday February 9, providing the perfect way to enjoy the final stage of the 2020 Jayco Herald Sun Tour.

Bring the whole family and ride like the pros on the official Jayco Herald Sun Tour stage 5 circuit around the Royal Botanic Gardens just hours before the best cyclists in Australia and around the world take centre stage.

Starting at 11am enjoy one-hour of riding on a closed road circuit, free from the hustle and bustle of Melbourne’s traffic.

Afterwards, stay and soak up the atmosphere at the festival hub, thanks to the City of Melbourne featuring live music, kids activities, food trucks and pop-up bar, before watching the race finale at 1:30pm.

Registration is FREE , open to all ages and includes insurance coverage thanks to Cycling Australia.

Come down and be part of the excitement.

Please note: All participants will receive a wristband for verification at registration.  Wristband required to access the course.

Participant insurance is provided through Cycling Australia and all information can be found here

When: Sunday February 9 Where: Birdwood Avenue, Kings Domain

Festival Hub: 10am – 4pm Registration: 10am – 11am Ride Melbourne: 11am – Midday VICS (Victoria Interschool Cycling Series): 12:15pm – 1pm Gumbuya World Stage 5 Jayco Herald Sun Tour: 1:30pm – 4pm

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