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When professional road cycling returns to Colorado this summer, it appears likely that Colorado Springs will be included in the race route.

In a release sent Monday, the city of Colorado Springs notified media of a Wednesday news conference where Mayor John Suthers will join organizers and representatives from the Colorado Springs Sports Corp., USA Cycling and RPM Events Group to announce a “major event.”

In September, RPM Events Group, a company formed by Colorado “bike czar” Ken Gart, Denver businessman David Koff and Tim Miller, organizer of road cycling’s 2015 world championships in Richmond, Va., stated its intention to fund four-day stage races in Colorado and Virginia. A month later, an event dubbed the Tour of Colorado was included in the 2017 season of the UCI Americas Tour released by cycling’s governing body.

Under the group’s planned model for the Aug. 10-13 race, Denver and the Front Range would serve as the start/finish line for most of the stages, with perhaps a one-off stage in the high country.

The location of Wednesday’s press conference at Springs-based USA Cycling plus the involvement of Suthers and the Sports Corp. suggests that at least one stage will be in the Pikes Peak region.

But the name of the event is bound to change as Springs race organizer Andy Bohlmann owns the rights to the trade name “Tour of Colorado,” having registered it in 2005 to his company Sand Creek Sports Inc.

Colorado Springs served as the host city for the inaugural stage of the USA Pro Challenge, a seven-day cycling race that ran in Colorado each summer from 2011 to 2015. That event, plagued by multimillion-dollar losses, shuttered shortly after race founders Richard and Rick Schaden relinquished control.