Team Rwanda duo joins Africa training camp

RWANDA’s cycling two brightest talents Janvier Hadi and Joseph Biziyaremye are in South Africa for a two-month training camp at the Africa Continental Centre Training Camp.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Twenty-year old Hadi has been named in the UCI Team Continental. The New Times/File.

RWANDA’s cycling two brightest talents Janvier Hadi and Joseph Biziyaremye are in South Africa for a two-month training camp at the Africa Continental Centre Training Camp.The pair, that left the country on Saturday, was on the Team Rwanda, which finished 15th in this year’s Tour of Rio de Janeiro last week in Brazil.They will return home on October 28 in time to start preparation for the Africa Championship with Team Rwanda in Burkina Faso.Hadi, 20, is among the 10 African cyclists, who will be in UCI Continental Team (for Africa) for the 2013 season.The two follow in the footsteps of Adrien Niyonshuti, who cycles for South African UCI Continental team MTN Qhubeka. The 25-year old, after riding for the Rwanda national cycling team, secured a professional contract with Team MTN Energade, beginning in the 2009 professional season.Niyonshuti was the first Rwandan cyclist in 2008 to attend the Africa Continental Centre Training Camp in South Africa, where he was offered a professional contract by the directeur sportif of UCI Continental Team MTN Energade Douglas Ryder.