Date: 01.04.2010 Moroccan riders raked in the UCI points during the Tour of Mali (March 7th – 13th) by taking the top three places in all five stages. Mouhcine Lahsaini was the overall winner, followed by his compatriots Adil Jelloul and Mohamed Er-Regraugui. They were up against competition from France, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and ...

Date: 05.03.2010  The Tour of Cameroon (February 15 – 26) was the highlight of the month in Africa. The class 2.2 event attracted European teams from France and Slovakia as well as African Teams from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Rwanda and three from Cameroon. After winning the first two stages, Burkina Faso’s Rasmane Ouedraogo conceded ...

03.02.2010   The  Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon took place from 19th to 24th January over six stages and a total of 719km. Overall winner is French professional rider Anthony Charteau (Bbox Bouygues Télécom) South Africa’s Ian McLeod finished the six days of competition just 11 seconds behind Charteau. This, together with a second place in stage four, was ...

During a visit to South Africa, the UCI President was interviewed on the leading South African private sports television channel SuperSport which is broadcast in South Africa and other African countries. Mr McQuaid talked about the globalisation of cycling... [flv:http://oldsite.uci.ch/ftpuci/ftpmovies/videos/InterviewPMQsite.flv 350 250]

The 19th EUROBIKE will take place from Wednesday through Saturday, 1-4 September 2010 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. For more information see: http://www.eurobike-show.de/eb-en/ The Interbike International Trade Expo will take place from Wednesday to Friday, 22-24 September 2010 in Las Vegas, USA. For more information see: www.interbike.com    

  In the UCI Africa Tour individual ranking, Abdelatif Saadoune has taken over the leader’s jersey, 40 points ahead of South African Ian McLeod. Eritrean Daniel Teklehaymanot, who was a trainee at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Switzerland, in 2009 and his compatriot Bereket Abebe are now in 7th and 8th position respectively. Due to ...

The first major event of the year 2010 will be the class 2.1 Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon, from 19th to 24th January. Teams attending will be: Cofidis, AG2R-La Mondiale, B Box Bouyges-Telecom, Team Designa-Kokken (DEN) and African UCI Continental Team MTN (RSA), as well as 10 African national teams from Gabon (2), Morocco, Burkina ...

The Tour of Rwanda, registered for the first time on the UCI International Calendar as a class 2.2 event, took place from 16th to 24th November.   The riders covered a total of 1’069 km with 13’066 m difference of altitude over eight stages. Teams from 12 countries participated in this event: Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Cameroon, ...