By Cycling News, The Eritrean, who triumphed in the individual time-trial at last month’s continental tournament, sprinted to the classic win on the Hartbeeshoek road in a time of 2:27:27. The finish line was awash with the feeder team’s familiar black-and-white kit as Teshome’s teammates stormed in on his wheel to complete their dominating performance […]
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By Cycling News, The Ethiopian Cycling Academy faces major difficulties. “The first big problem is they don’t have bikes,” says manager Jorge Quintana. But motivation for the young Ethiopians is not a problem, and particularly not after visiting this year’s Tour de France. The Academy is new, and hoping to build up a good program, […]
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By Yishak Yared | Shabit.com, For years, every July, we have been sitting for hours concentrating on our television sets to watch Tour de France. The big names in every one’s mind were Armstrong, Contador, Cavandish, and what have you. 2015 Tour de France, however, is different for us. Our attention completely shifted for our […]
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President Jacob Zuma has congratulated South Africa’s nine-man MTN-Qhubeka Cycling Team – the first African professional cycling team to participate in the Tour de France’s 112-year history.
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By Reuters, THE man who founded the first African team to race in the Tour de France said on Friday that racist abuse suffered by one of his riders could not deflect from its success in establishing Africa’s place in world cycling. MTN-Qhubeka team founder Douglas Ryder said Eritrean Natnael Berhane was upset at being […]
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By MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung, THE completion of the final Criterium du Dauphine stage brought with it a tremendous amount of joy for Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung as Daniel Teklehaimanot would win the King of the Mountians polka dot jersey, our African team’s first ever World Tour leaders jersey.
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By TesfaNews, TODAY was a spectacular day for MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung as one its best climber Eritrean Daniel Teklehaimanot wrapped up the King of the Mountains jersey while Louis Meintjes put in a phenomenal ride to claim 3rd place on today’s Criterium du Dauphine queen stage competition. Daniel and Louis were part of the large break […]
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By Cycling News, MTN-Qhubeka scored its first-ever jersey in a World Tour race Sunday at the Criterium du Dauphine when Daniel Teklehaimanot infiltrated the early breakaway and climbed into the polka-dot jersey of the best climber. Teklehaimanot and four others jumped clear of the bunch after about 10km of racing. The Eritrean slipped away from […]
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