{"id":27362,"date":"2019-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/race-director-on-the-chances-of-another-state-pinching-the-tour-down-under\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"race-director-on-the-chances-of-another-state-pinching-the-tour-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/race-director-on-the-chances-of-another-state-pinching-the-tour-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Director On The Chances Of Another State Pinching The Tour Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outgoing race director Mike Turtur has all but ruled out the iconic Tour Down Under moving interstate.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have to worry about that because there\u2019s a massive, important aspect of this event that we all should be very proud of and be secure about, and that is that the South Australian government own the race,\u201d Mike told FIVEAA breakfast on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get involved in international sport, big series races, normally they\u2019re owned by an organisation that demand a fee for the right for you to stage the thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case we created this from nothing. This race wasn\u2019t on the calendar, so we created the event, we placed it on the calendar &#8212; South Australian government owns the race. It\u2019s their choice to stage the race. If they choose not to stage the race then of course the timeslot will go and the concept and everything about it might move somewhere else. But Tour Down Under as the race it is today is owned by the government and the people of South Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Turtur has announced he will step down after 22 years as TDU race director following next year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing race director Mike Turtur has all but ruled out the iconic Tour Down Under moving interstate. \u201cWe don\u2019t have to worry about that because there\u2019s a massive, important aspect of this event that we all should be very proud of and be secure about, and that is that the South Australian government own the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-27362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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