Welcome to our live blog to chart the progress of the #TeamTrhas project in the United Kingdom, on which we are working with Trhas, the West London Welcome community center and many of our friends and contacts across the cycling…
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Initiated by the then 13-year old William Mills as an outreach programme for disadvantaged boys from inner city Johannesburg, the St Johns College and Academy Cycling Group is, six years later, developing a new skillset, this time learning to how…
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Africa Rising CEO Kimberly Coats Recognised in Two Major International Women’s Day 2025 Publications
It has been quite a week for Team Africa Rising’s CEO Kimberly Coats around International Women’s Day 2025. She has been named as one of the key women in world cycling in TWO major media reports by Cycling News and…
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Welcome to our live #FromThePaddock blog here at the 2025 Tour du Rwanda, in central Africa! We will be sharing content in real time across our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, BlueSky, LinkedIn) so please do give these…
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Gasore Hategeka was one of the first members of the post original five members of Team Rwanda Cycling. Gasore was the beginning of Team Rwanda 2.0. I remember the day he showed up to the Team House in Musanze, long…
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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…
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[UPDATE: On 2 February, Merhawi was involved in a serious accident during a descent in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille in France. He is in a serious condition and we wish him a speedy recovery.] Merhawi Kudus, 31 years…
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As Henok Mulubrhan was crowned Elite Men’s Africa Champion for the third year in a row today – unprecedented we think – we thought it good to write up an overview of all the results in one place. Big congratulations…
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In 2017, Team Africa Rising launched its 18-month phase-out plan from Rwanda. It was an intentional decision to continue giving the Rwandan Cycling Federation financial support on a diminishing scale over time. TAR continued to offer access to sponsors, coaches,…
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Biniam Girmay, a world class cyclist from Eritrea, became the first Black African to win a stage at the Tour de France. Today was the day. History was written. After 15 years of dogged determination, a commitment to African cycling…
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