Cycling for glory, and a good cause too

IN JUST a couple of weeks' time, more than 11,000 cyclists will take to the streets and pedal for glory at the OCBC Cycle Singapore event. This will be the sixth edition of Singapore's largest mass participation cycling event on closed public roads. Local bank and title sponsor OCBC has seen both the number of participants and corporate sponsors increase over the years.

Support for the event has been encouraging so far. In 2012, at the Singapore Sports Awards, OCBC Cycle Singapore was crowned Best Local Sports Event, cementing its status as one of the signature sporting events here, says the bank's head of corporate communications, Koh Ching Ching.

She shares more about the bank's plans to build on the event's success and why the bank is committed to supporting cycling in the long haul.