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Concept of developing African cyclists leads to victory – Meron Teshome wins stage 2, Tour of Eritrea
Apr 21, 2016
Nowadays there are many discussions about integration and uniting people but to make all this happen in reality seems not to be that easy sometimes.
But how it can work, the guys from Stradalli – BIKE AID procycling team showed today in an impressive way during the 2nd stage of Tour of Eritrea.
Sometimes it is fairly enough just to make some steps towards the others and open himself to achieve a common goal. So it happened on today’s stage and many of the other riders are not able to understand what the guys did, as it is far away from normal that in a German team German riders work actively together with riders from Africa and at the end it is an African rider that wins. But at the end it’s simple to understand: it is exactly what BIKE AID concept is about! To develop African riders to grow and make them successful in the end!
All riders put all what they had together and worked for one goal: keeping the bunch together to get a bunch sprint in the end as they knew how fast Meron Teshome is. And as they arrived at the finish line at km 178, it was the moment to show that this can come true.
Perfectly piloted by Meron Amanuel, it was Meron Teshome who let no doubt to be the fastest guy in the peloton and he also let no chance to Adriano Bani from Italian Team Amore e Vita, who finished 4th.
A great day for the team, the staff and all the riders that gives hope for the upcoming days!
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Meron Amanuel takes 3rd place on stage1 - Tour of Eritrea
At the opening stage to Tour of Eritrea, the German team Stradalli – BIKE AID could well present their colours again and take another podium placing in a UCI ranked race with Meron Amanuel’s 3rd place.
Already with the places 5 and 3 at the two one-day races “Fenkel Challenge” and “Massawa Circuit” showed a positive trend of the team’s performance. The expectations were set high for the first stage of Tour of Eritrea to fight for the stage win on this 112 km long, mostly flat stage from Barentu to Teseney. The goal was to decide the race in a bunch sprint, as the team has with Meron Teshome one of the fastest men among their squad. But cycling race is not cycling race when all comes a bit different at the end and especially in races in Africa. Also it was the case that time, due to numerous attacks in the beginning and crosswind sections that the guys from Eritrea know very well. But fortunately it was Meron Amanuel who knows the roads and conditions also very well and he made it up to the front to finish 2nd at the end of the following group behind the solo winner Yonatan Hailu, who made a gap with 14 seconds and claimed the yellow jersey that day.
3rd Place at stage 1 is another good performance from “Mister sunshine” Meron Amanuel and gives hope for another good results the upcoming days!
Received on Thu Apr 21 2016 - 05:28:38 EDT