African cycling

[Globalti]

There is a spark of life:

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5483588-146/Nigeria's_cycling_team_wants_to_conquer.csp

I wonder if we'll be able to get the results online or see it on TV? It finishes in Accra today.

Just at Schipol now on the way home from 2 weeks in Ghana and Nigeria so I know all about those roads!

 

[downfader]

There is a spark of life:

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5483588-146/Nigeria's_cycling_team_wants_to_conquer.csp

I wonder if we'll be able to get the results online or see it on TV? It finishes in Accra today.

Just at Schipol now on the way home from 2 weeks in Ghana and Nigeria so I know all about those roads!

I find it very odd how long it has taken for professional cycling to have been taken up in African countries. They have the men and women - very fine athletes, and they have a hell of a lot of bikes and cyclists. Yet its only just seeming to start. Perhaps its a finance thing, running and long jump, etc, can all be done barefoot to a degree.

I'd love to see how these guys do on Le Tour. My guess is they'd trash some of the old pro teams there.

 

[Globalti]

When you see the condition of the roads, the reckless driving and the day-to-day cost of living in a country like Nigeria you'll understand why most people are forced to direct their cash and energy to just surviving. A bicycle would cost a year's wages or more, I'm sure.