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Rolf Aldag to join Africa’s Team as Performance Manager

By Press Office · 5 comments

After announcing a number of new prominent rider additions to our African Team for 2016, we are now delighted to welcome Rolf Aldag to our management staff for the upcoming season.

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Rolf joins Team Dimension Data with immediate effect, taking on the role as our teams Performance Manager. He is outspoken for his expertise both on and off the bike. In the past couple of years Rolf played a vital role in terms of success for teams like HTC-Highroad and Etixx-QuickStep, where he now joins our African team from.

Rolf will be a familiar face to many of our riders and partners after already having worked and ridden with them in the past. He will be key to our African teams success going into the 2016 season.

I am happy to join Team Dimension Data, as the outfit will be known from 2016. As a South African resident I have a good understanding of Qhubeka’s importance. I know how much impact the charity has on the lives of children and the future of the country. I am looking forward to play an active role for Qhubeka and hope to add some value to the team’s sporting success.
Rolf Aldag – Performance Manager
I am really excited to have one of the most experienced individuals in cycling join our team. Rolf has helped teams in the past excel on a performance level and a technical level and we look forward to the contribution he can make in our team as we embark on the next phase of our journey.
Douglas Ryder – Team Principal

Comments

Shebeen

Nov 2, 2015, 11:53 AM

great rider...hopefully he can get the most out of the team

gummibear

Nov 2, 2015, 1:56 PM

How is this still an African team other than being SA registered??

Paul Ruinaard

Nov 2, 2015, 2:18 PM

Wasn't Ralf Aldag on the T Systems roster and admitted to EPO use with Zabel?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Aldag

Paul Ruinaard

Nov 2, 2015, 3:24 PM

What was the question again?

Actually when you look at this list then I really should phrase the question along the lines of look who was doping:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling#2015

 

So this is not a doping thread and its been done ad infinitum but it pretty interesting to browse the condensed history of doping in cycling in one place.

 

Suffice to say, you must have some knowledge of chemistry to have ridden a bike from about 1990 onwards.

 

I hope Ralf finds that he is able to work on performance coaching without any need of other assistance for his subjects to extract peak performance from them.

xcd

Nov 3, 2015, 7:57 AM

Actually when you look at this list then I really should phrase the question along the lines of look who was doping:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycling#2015

 

So this is not a doping thread and its been done ad infinitum but it pretty interesting to browse the condensed history of doping in cycling in one place.

 

Suffice to say, you must have some knowledge of chemistry to have ridden a bike from about 1990 onwards.

 

I hope Ralf finds that he is able to work on performance coaching without any need of other assistance for his subjects to extract peak performance from them.

Interesting read thanks !

I'm sure with Dr Carol Austin at the head of performance it will be well monitored.

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