{"id":636762,"date":"2026-04-29T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:46:16","slug":"amaury-sports-organisation-joins-amazon-armed-forces-cycling-classic-to-grow-washington-d-c-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636762\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaury Sports Organisation joins Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic to grow Washington D.C. event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Amaury Sports Organisation, the French company that operates the Tour de France, is \u201cjoining the Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic with an eye on growing the profile of the D.C. region\u2019s premier cycling event,\u201d according to Drew Hansen of the WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL. The groups announced that ASO will collaborate with Arlington Sports Inc., the nonprofit that has put on the event since 1998, to \u201cevolve the race in the years ahead.\u201d Officials \u201cdeclined to share terms of the agreement, billing it as a partnership.\u201d But ASO has \u201clong wanted a larger presence in the U.S. market,\u201d and the Armed Forces Cycling Classic stands to \u201cgain some prestige and international interest\u201d with the French company\u2019s involvement, perhaps \u201cultimately bringing in elite competitors.\u201d Armed Forces Cycling Classic officials said that ASO\u2019s involvement is \u201cakin\u201d to F1 coming to the U.S. or NFL games in Europe. The 2026 Amazon Armed Forces Classic will be held May 30 and 31, and ASO representatives will be \u201con site throughout race weekend to experience the event and interact with athletes, partners and others involved as they look to evolve the race.\u201d Arlington Sports Inc. posted $464,928 in revenue and $15,561 in net income for the FY ending in October 2024, according to its most recently available tax filing. The annual race \u201ctouts more than 500 local commercial partners\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/washington\/news\/2026\/04\/29\/aso-amazon-armed-forces-cycling-classic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WASHINGTON BUSINESS JOURNAL, 4\/29<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amaury Sports Organisation, the French company that operates the Tour de France, is \u201cjoining the Amazon Armed Forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-636762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}