By Shabait, Amanuel Gebrezgiabher from ASBECO Cycling Club and Elias Afwerki from ERI-TEL Cycling Club are departing to Brussels today to sign, if all goes well, a contract with CT 2020 (CyclingTeam 2020). During their 80-day stay, the two cyclists will compete in different tournaments that will take place in Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland.
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By Million G. Michael, THE racial abuse aimed at Eritrea’s cycling Champion Natnael Berhane at Tour of Austria is unacceptable and it has to be condemned by all in strongest terms possible. The racism that plagued FIFA for years shouldn’t make its way into Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
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By Eri-Sportive, AFRICAN Continental Individual Time Trial (ITT) Championship concluded earlier today with Eritrean Daniel Teklehaimanot unusually finishing in second place for the Silver medal behind Tsgabu Grmay of Ethiopia while Merhawi Kudus, who had competed in both the Elite and U23 ITT, had won Gold in the U23 ITT while finishing 5th in the […]
Continue ReadingBy Shabait, THE Eritrean National Cycling Team today left for Spain to take part in the 2014 UCI Road World Championships competition that is scheduled to take place in Ponferrada, Spain from 21 to 28 September. Present at the send-off ceremony were heads of the Sports Commission and the Cycling Federation.
Continue ReadingBy World Cycling Centre (WCC), “I’m so happy to be here. It’s like home to me,” says the 23-year-old Eritrean, who was a trainee at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in 2011 and 2012. “It’s good to train here in the mountains for the Vuelta.” Natnael Berhane first arrived at the WCC in Aigle (Switzerland) […]
Continue ReadingBy Seble Ephrem, ERITREA’s passion for cycling is not news to those that have any inkling on the country’s history. In recent years a rising number of riders are being acknowledged for their professionalism, albeit reluctantly in many cases. Only a few days ago Jock Boyer, the first American who participated in the Tour de France […]
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 ReadingBy TesfaNews, Eritrean Natnael Berhane (Europcar) finally inherited the historic Presidential Tour of Turkey title after Turkish Cycling Federation confirms the doping offence and formally stripped off the victory title from the controversial winner Mustafa Sayar. The surprise victory by a relatively unknown Mustafa Sayar and his dramatic performance on stage six with eight seconds […]
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