TAR Editorial Team

African Continental Championships & End of Season UCI #AfricaTour Review

October 24, 2025

As we head towards the end of October and the 2025 UCI professional road cycling season has officially closed. Any points won at UCI races moving forward will be counted towards the 2026 season. We thought a good time to…

Madar Pro Cycling – Get To Know Africa’s #1 Road Racing Team

August 9, 2025

On 5 August 2025, the UCI updated their overall rankings following the conclusion of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. This update happens pretty regularly on their website and we monitor this for interesting trends…

South Africa’s Qhubeka Charity supported by the men’s and women’s Tour de France again in 2025!

June 30, 2025

The Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift announce that they have renewed their support for South Africa’s Qhubeka Charity for 2025, another year for this long-running relationship. Yann Le Moënner, the CEO of Amaury Sport…

Team Africa Rising Newsletter: Benin Women Heading to the Maryland Cycling Classic

June 19, 2025

We mentioned a few weeks back that we had some BIG, BIG news… and today we deliver! And there couldn’t be a better day than June 19th – ‘Juneteenth’ – to make this announcement. Today, we commemorate the ending of…

Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme (CAC) Elections – 16 February 2025

February 14, 2025

As delegates from up to 54 African nations head to Egypt for the 2025 Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme (“CAC”) congress this weekend, is it time for a change at the top…. CAC is the over-arching regional federation of all African…

The new “Africa’s Team” – Meet CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto Generation (2025)

December 8, 2024

In the last week or so, the CANYON//SRAM Racing team have announced their development squad riders, and the team incredibly features five, yes, FIVE African women again! They can now claim to be the true owners of the term “Africa’s…

2024 UCI World Championships – Full African Rider Start-lists

September 18, 2024

With only a few days to go, we are happy to share the only list of all African riders taking part in the 2024 UCI Cycling World Championships, being hosted in Zurich (Switzerland). There are 79 African cyclists taking part,…

She Moves the Game Spotlight: Interview with Kimberly Coats

April 17, 2024

Welcome to Redtorch’s She Moves The Game Spotlight Series, where we shine the light on the incredible women working in sport (find out more here). Kimberly Coats, 2022 BikeBiz Woman of the Year and one of the 2023 50 Most Influential Americans in…

Importance of La Tropicale to African Cycling

January 30, 2023

The last time La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, the longest-running UCI 2.1 race on the African continent, was held was in 2020. The last stage raced was on January 26th, right before the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Road to Kigali 2025: Rwanda Reviews Its Cycling Program

August 30, 2022

With the first World Championships taking place on African soil in just three years’ time, Rwanda is taking a look at the current state of its cycling program. B&B FM Umwezi asked our CEO, Kimberly Coats, for her expert view…