Qhubeka NOT 1st African Team

[milky4130]

"In the six months since ASO confirmed its wildcard invitations to the Tour de France, it has been repeated the world over that MTN-Qhubeka will become the first African team to participate in the race. Even MTN-Qhubeka's own press release announcing its Tour line-up rehashed the same mistaken assertion, describing itself as the "first-ever African team to ride the Grande Boucle.""

 

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/retro-the-1950-tour-de-france-and-the-forgotten-first-african-team

[milky4130]

Ignorance is bliss, never knew this myself but I also didn't jump on "1st African Team Band Wagon" either.

Not even the CSA president knew this either.

[Gen]

"In the six months since ASO confirmed its wildcard invitations to the Tour de France, it has been repeated the world over that MTN-Qhubeka will become the first African team to participate in the race. Even MTN-Qhubeka's own press release announcing its Tour line-up rehashed the same mistaken assertion, describing itself as the "first-ever African team to ride the Grande Boucle.""

 

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/retro-the-1950-tour-de-france-and-the-forgotten-first-african-team

Aaah now we know

[Skinnyone]

Yes cuz I kinda recall a Team Barloworld??? Weren't they African or did I miss something? Perhaps they were registered as an overseas team       

[Wez-O]

Yes cuz I kinda recall a Team Barloworld??? Weren't they African or did I miss something? Perhaps they were registered as an overseas team       

Barloworld were registered as a British team.

[nickc]

Barloworld were registered as a British team.

Yip - you are right, South African Sponser but registered in Britain, thats where the confusion comes in.

 

And just to complicate matters - at one stage partly owned by Cannondale so we had even a USA connection.

[Skinnyone]

Ah hah, thanks for clearing that up...I thought as much...

[Wez-O]

Yip - you are right, South African Sponser but registered in Britain, thats where the confusion comes in.

 

And just to complicate matters - at one stage partly owned by Cannondale so we had even a USA connection.

Basically, Barloworld was as South African as Chris Froome... 

[FrankieKnuckles]

This thread has cleared up so much confusion for me!

Now onto the JFK assassination, Loch Ness and Area 51.

But I have faith the Google jockeys on the Hub will have all that clarified by lunchtime.

Phew!

[milky4130]

Will still be routing for our African Team nonetheless but this was embarrassing to say the least.

[SwissVan]

So who will be the first to tweet correct https://twitter.com/carltonkirby from eurosport so that he does not say it every day every time a mtn rider is on screen for the next 3 weeks

 

I like Carlton's commentary, just don't want to hear him get wrong wrong wrong wrong...

[Gen]

So who will be the first to tweet correct https://twitter.com/carltonkirby from eurosport so that he does not say it every day every time a mtn rider is on screen for the next 3 weeks

 

I like Carlton's commentary, just don't want to hear him get wrong wrong wrong wrong...

 

 

Aargh, we'll have phil and co repeating themselves for 3 weeks.. why oh why

[Shebeen]

the question is, not many people have suitcases in africa. so imagine "tekla teklhaimanot the tunisian is digging into his polyethylene bag of courage"

 

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[rock]

Aargh, we'll have phil and co repeating themselves for 3 weeks.. why oh why

 

forget the dopers, those two deserve a ban from the UCI

[Christie]

But it sounds from the article as if the Algerian team was regisrered in France? hehe.

[Rocket-Boy]

forget the dopers, those two deserve a ban from the UCI

I like Phil's commentary.