The Philippines makes a return to the world cycling map with the staging of the 2010 Padyak Pinoy Tour of the Philippines, a four-stage road cycling competition that would pit the country’s cream of the crop against foreign rivals not only from Asia but also from Europe.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), through its president Pat McQuaid, has approved the request of Padyak Pinoy organizer Dynamic Outsource Solutions, Inc. (Dos-1) for the 2010 Tour of the Philippines which will be staged April 17 to 20, 2010. Dos-1 president and Padyak Pinoy chairman Gary Cayton said the event will be aptly called the "Le Tour de Filipinas."

This marks the first time in 12 years that the Philippines will be included on the UCI calendar on the Asian Continental Circuit. The last time the UCI sanctioned and calendared a local multi-stage race was from 1996 to 1998 when the Tour was then known as the Marlboro Tour.

Bert Lina, the immediate past president of the national federation of cycling, PhilCycling, and whose Lina Group of Companies has Dos-1 as one of its growing number of companies, was elated with UCI’s inclusion of the race on its official calendar.

The four-stage Tour of the Philippines would start on April 17 with the Tagaytay-Tagaytay massed start race, followed by a team time trial competition in the second stage on Roxas Boulevard.