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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s encouraging to see the biggest race organisers continually putting their faith in the team, which is something we\u2019ve been working hard to achieve. Our work ethic is to respect every race we take part in and give it our best and more so with regards to WorldTour races of course.<\/p>\n
To line up as Africa\u2019s team on the start line of the 100th edition of Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge is especially significant for the sport and something we\u2019ll see the rewards of years from now.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some more exciting announcements to come in the coming days which keeps the team motivated. The riders have shown an incredible level of motivation since our training camp in December. It shows so far in the races and we\u2019ve already won in Africa (Gabon), picked up a national title (Louis Meintjes at SA Champs) and have our first European victory (Gerald Ciolek, Ruta Del Sol) under our belts.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve not been confirmed for a grand tour yet but what it\u2019s done is motivated the guys more to prove we\u2019re capable of racing at the top level of the sport and we\u2019re very grateful to be there. Here\u2019s to an exciting few weeks ahead in world cycling. Keep supporting Africa\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Douglas Ryder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Team Principal<\/em><\/p>\n Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A word from Douglas Ryder: ASO today announced our inclusion in Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne. It\u2019s wonderful to receive this news and now have the biggest WorldTour calendar we\u2019ve ever had. It\u2019s encouraging to see the biggest race organisers continually putting their faith in the team, which is something we\u2019ve been working hard to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4533,5004,1455,1838,3308],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-aso","tag-classics","tag-liege-bastogne-liege","tag-road","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21285"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}