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Tour de France Launches #Qhubekaday on 18 July 2023

By Jeremy Ford | July 17, 2023

Le Tour de France is excited to announce that during the sixteenth stage of the race on Tuesday, 18 July, we will be promoting our continued partnership with the Qhubeka Charity (“Qhubeka”). The #QhubekaDay campaign seeks to encourage fans around…

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Brent Copeland Talks African Cycling

By Jeremy Ford | July 9, 2023

Brent is the General Manager of Team Jayco AlUla, an Australian World Tour Team Team Africa Rising’s European Correspondent hit the first few stages of this year’s Tour de France and interviewed one of the most tenured General Managers in…

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Qhubeka Charity: The Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift extend long-term partnership

By Jeremy Ford | July 8, 2023

These two high-profile cycling events have announced the continuation of their partnership with Qhubeka for 2023. Qhubeka is a high-profile and highly effective African social mobility charity. This support has already led to the distribution of over 1,500 Qhubeka bicycles to schoolchildren across South Africa. Qhubeka is also one of…

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Supporting African Riders in the World Tour

By Jeremy Ford | July 5, 2023

An Interview with Aike Visbeek (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty) Here at the 2023 Tour de France in the SW corner of France, we caught up with Aike Visbeek, the Performance Manager of the Intermarche-Circus-Wanty World Tour team discussing how they are now the…

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Tour de France launches “School Solidarity – A Bike For Every Child” Campaign

By Jeremy Ford | May 31, 2023

The Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), organisers of the Tour de France (TDF) and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TDFFaZ), have today launched the “School Solidarity – A Bike For Every Child” Campaign. This campaign aims to put 100,000…

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Tour du Benin 2023

By Kimberly Coats | May 18, 2023

Results and Reflections on the Race and the National Team The Tour du Benin, May 2 – 7th, the second year as UCI 2.2, highlighted some of the best talent on the African continent and the power of ownership. The…

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Tour de Lunsar Women

Tour de Lunsar Women’s Race

By Luke Williams | April 27, 2023

The 2023 Science in Sport Tour de Lunsar got underway today with the women’s and junior races. Each race followed the same criterium style route around Lunsar and then out and back to nearby Rogberi Junction, a parcours that promised…

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TAR Sponsoring Women’s Jersey at SiS Tour de Lunsar

By Jeremy Ford | March 14, 2023

13.3.2023: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Team Africa Rising steps up its support of the SiS Tour de Lunsar and women’s cycling in west Africa with blue jersey sponsorship.  Lunsar Cycling Team is pleased to announce that Team Africa Rising will sponsor…

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The Remarkable Journey of Eyeru

By Kimberly Coats | March 8, 2023

September 19, 2021 – Facebook message with Eyeru Eyeru and Team Africa Rising have been intertwined since Eyeru was a teenager in Ethiopia. During one of our visits to Ethiopia in 2014/15, this young woman burst onto our radar as…

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Tour du Rwanda 2023’s Highlights

By Kimberly Coats | February 28, 2023

This year’s Tour du Rwanda proved to be an edge-of-your-seat event with multiple Stage winners and General Classification holders. As with all UCI stage races fought to the brutal last hundreds of meters, there is always a melancholic sadness the…

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