(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Buoyed by the worldwide media coverage of the fifth edition of the Tour of Oman, Muscat Municipality, the organisers of the annual cycling race, is trying to ensure live telecast of next year's edition.
Salim al Hasani, a member of the organising committee for the race, told Muscat Daily, ''We are trying to have the Tour of Oman telecast live next year.
Preliminary discussions will begin in the coming weeks with officials from [event management company] Paumer, who will visit Oman.''
Hasani was speaking on the sidelines of a meeting on Thursday to highlight the 2014 Tour of Oman's extensive print and electronic media coverage across Europe.
Paumer is a Belgian company, run by Eddy Merckx and his partner Dirk de Pauw, which has been hired by Muscat Municipality to rope in the Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) for holding the Tour of Oman every winter.
Hasani said the 2014 edition received wide coverage in French, Belgian and Swiss newspapers. ''According to the summary submitted to us by the organisers, the 2014 edition was covered in 362 newspapers - most of them are French. This shows the large following the Tour of Oman has gained over the years,'' he said.
Hasani added, ''So far, we have had highlights of the Tour of Oman shown on television everyday. But now, we are keen to have live telecast of the event. We hope it could be done next year. One of the key areas to develop the Tour of Oman is to have live telecast and we are keen to start it. There are a lot of details to be discussed, so we are starting the process this month.''
The 2014 Tour of Oman was held over six stages from February 18-23 and won by current Tour de France champion Chris Froome (Team Sky), who defended his titl
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