African champions Archives

Cycling in Eritrea (The Economist)

September 13, 2014TesfaNews21 Comments

By The Economist, ERITREA would appear on no one’s list of cycling powerhouses. No African rider has ever won the Tour de France—no black African has ever even competed in it—and the last time an Olympic cycling medal was bestowed on an athlete from anywhere on the continent was 1956. The closed and desperately poor […]

Daniel Teklehaimanot, the climber King

January 30, 2011February 18, 2014TesfaNews2 Comments

tropicaleamissabongo.com Born November 10, 1988 at Debarwa, this Eritrean cyclists will forever mark the history of Tropical Amissa Bongo in which he registered as the first African to win a stage. His feat was predicted yesterday by the RFI journalist Christopher Jousset in the Gazette of the tropics.