BY AIDANE O’DONNELL | QARTZ AFRICA When Amanueal Tsegay broke away on the second day of this year’s Tour of Eritrea he was accompanied all the way to the finish by pleading and cries from his team car: dai! dai! dai! It’s an Italian word, the first one an Italian will turn to when cheering on an […]
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By Simeon, Just 78 years after fascist colonial Italy had first organised the Tour of Eritrea that discriminated the participation of the native Eritreans in 1938, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) led regime in Ethiopia has hosted the first competitive tour in Ethiopia. The tour kicked started yesterday in Mekele, the regional capital of Tigray, after UCI […]
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By Yosief Abraham Z., It has been already informed the commencement of the 2016 Tour of Eritrea and amid the various media-outlets tides concerning Eritrea, unintentional activities of propagating Eritrea’s chronicles in the arena of sport with political matters have been common. Starting from Sudan Tribune which abandoned celebrating Eritrea’s inescapable success with its report […]
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By Sophia Tesfamariam, It was just over a month ago that the historic Tour de France placed Eritrea and her cyclists on the world stage. A new chapter was written in cycling history when Daniel Teklehaimanot became the first rider down the start ramp at the 2015 Tour. Daniel and his fellow Eritrean compatriot Merhawi […]
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By MTN-Qhubeka, DANIEL Teklehaimanot has won the Eritrean national time trial championships after beating the MTN-Qhubeka Feeder Team rider, Meron Teshome by just 4 seconds over the 38km course. Natnael Berhane made it an even better day for MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung by finishing in 3rd place.
Continue ReadingBy Mathieu Olivier, LOOK no African representatives in the peloton of the Tour de France, which is slender, Saturday, July 5, from Great Britain and ending at Paris in just under three weeks. Once again, Africa is absent from the great mass of cycling, despite the beautiful hope glimpsed during the 2013/2014 season and plenty of […]
Continue ReadingIn the women’s race, Wehazit Kidane wins the title while Mosana Debesay claims 2nd followed by Tehaynesh Fetsum By CapitalEritrea, NATNAEL Berhane (Europcar) wins the 2014 Eritrean National Individual Time Trial (ITT) Championship ahead of Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka) on Saturday. Mekseb Debesay finished 3rd. The Europcar rider returned home to Eritrea after the Tour de Romandie to […]
Continue ReadingBy Final Kilometre, It was former UCI President Pat McQuaid who pushed for the global expansion of the sport, around 2009, when Cycling was quite stagnant. The same races were competed by riders from the same nations, with a few exceptions but not many. Tour of Oman, Tour of Dubai and the Montreal and Quebec […]
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