The 22 kilometres and 66 km cycle races as part of the concluding ceremony of the Sports Board Punjab Festival will be held at the Ring Road today with around 3000 cyclists participation. The fun cycle race will start at 10 AM while the main professional race of 66 km will be paddled off at 11 while the closing ceremony of the Punjab Sports Festival will be held at Hazoori Park at 5 pm. Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif will be the chief guest to distribute cash prizes amounting millions among the winners of all the final events.
The chairman sports festival Hamza Shahbaz, chairman organizing committee Rana Mashood and DG Sports Punjab Usman Anwar along with other VVIP’s, MPA’s and MNA’s will attend the historical closing ceremony. The Punjab Sports Festival started from January 23 at union council level and continued till inter divisional level final phase. The departments, bar associations, press clubs, special persons and veterans matches including marathon and family fun race were also the part of this mega sports event. The last event of the festival, the cycling competitions will be held today (March 17) starting from Old Ravi Exchange and finishing at the same point while a number
of audience will witness this event.