Stage sev­en of the Tour of T&T In­de­pen­dence Cy­cle Clas­sic was aban­doned yes­ter­day due to in­clement weath­er and flood­ing. The Comp­ton Gon­salves Stage, which be­gan on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade in Port-of-Spain came to a stop in Oropouche in South Trinidad. The race was to end at Frisco Junc­tion in Point Fortin. Pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF), Rowe­na Williams ex­plained that it was un­for­tu­nate that the race came to a pre­ma­ture end.

"We had just fin­ished tak­ing the sprint team to Gulf City. "We passed the Creek (Mos­qui­to Creek) and head­ed down to Dow Vil­lage, where there was a back up of traf­fic. "The cy­clists got off their bikes and pro­ceed­ed to run through the wa­ter along with one po­lice bike but the rest of of­fi­cials were un­able to pass through the wa­ter and traf­fic so we were left with no choice but to can­cel the race," said Williams. Stage nine, the Ahamad Charles Stage a 96 kilo­me­tre road race, will ped­al off at 2 pm to­day at Frisco Junc­tion to San Fer­nan­do and end at the BP Re­source Cen­tre in Ma­yaro.

Stand­ings (Af­ter Stage 6)

1 Ed­win Vane­gas (Cy­cling Team Krieger)

2 Rafael Mer­ane (Team Foun­da­tion)

3 Jamie Ramirez (Team Foun­da­tion)

4 Maarten de Jonge (Team CCN)

5 Emile Abra­ham (Roset­ti De­vo)

6 Ce­sar Gra­jales (Team Petrotrin)

7 Richard Heath­cote (Pri­mal Eu­rope)

8 Dar­ren Matthews (Team Co­cos)

9 John Eb­sen (Team CCN)

10 Mar­loe Rod­man (Raf­mon Mecal­fab)