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Road To The Worlds: Inside the UCI World Cycling Centre Development Programme

August 9, 2023

If you are not familiar with the World Cycling Centre (WCC), it is an elite coaching and training centre in Aigle (Switzerland). It also houses the headquarters of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The WCC opened in 2002 and welcomes…

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Malawian Cyclist supported by local Scottish bicycle shop for Glasgow Worlds

August 4, 2023

Malawian cyclist, Macpherson Mbeya, will be the solo Malawian athlete taking part in the UCI 2023 Cycling World Championships, being held across Scotland (UK) from the 3rd to 13th August. Macpherson, who works as a clinical officer in Mzimba, will…

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Brent Copeland Talks African Cycling

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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Supporting African Riders in the World Tour

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

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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African Continental Road Championships 2023

February 17, 2023

Please find below a list of all the gold medal winners (African Champions) at this year’s African Continental Championships, hosted by the Ghanaian Cycling Federation from 8-17 February. In terms of gold medals, Team Algeria simply dominated the event, taking…

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The New Elite In Africa Cycling: Four Nations Broke Away in 2022…

December 30, 2022

As we draw to the end of 2022, it is important to recognise the successes across the year, and look towards the possible highlights of 2023… Firstly, lets look at the 2022 end of year UCI Africa Tour rankings as…

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Team Africa Rising Reporting from the Tour de France

July 1, 2022

July 1, 2022, the 109th Tour de France. The first time Team Africa Rising is covering it live on the ground. Unfortunately, this year no Black African riders are on the start list. Not an Africa Rising moment at Le Tour. …

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South Africa’s Qhubeka Charity announces the continuation of its Tour de France partnership, and its extension to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift for 2022

June 23, 2022

Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) today announced the continuation of its partnership with the South Africa-based Qhubeka Charity (Qhubeka) as an official charity supported by the Tour de France for the race in 2022 (taking place from 1 to 24 July). Qhubeka will be supported by the 2022 Tour de France Femmes…

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Eritrean Biniam Girmay wows the world on the first stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia!

May 9, 2022

It has been an incredible first few days at the 2022 Giro d’Italia and all eyes are on Biniam Girmay, the 22 year old Eritrean, riding for the Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert team. On Friday’s first stage, from Budapest to Visegrád (Hungary), he…

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