<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5dfc9f06-509e-4031-b3c3-3c277bd1b614/45464222-97D3-477A-9C94-6ADF3E08F1B4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><H1>A mountain to climb</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Rwanda will forever be synonymous with genocide. But, 15 years on, the land of 1,000 hills is producing some of the best cyclists in Africa. Now Team Rwanda have the Tour de France in their sights, and they are determined to make their country famous for a positive reason</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><LI class="publication"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{The Observer}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk">The Observer</A>, Sunday 3 May 2009 </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><LI class="byline"> Steve Bloomfield </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/E5F6E4DF-4667-42F0-82A1-E5E9D8AEA2A0" alt="Team Rwanda on a training session " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><P class="caption">Team Rwanda on a training session near Musanze in the north of the country in February 2009. Photograph: Riccardo Gangale</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><P>There was a moment when Jock Boyer realised just how much <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/cycling">cycling</A> talent there is in <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/rwanda">Rwanda</A>. Boyer, once the first American to ride the Tour de France and now the first coach of the Rwandan national cycling team, was leading his team of professionals up a steep, winding hill.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/may/03/rwanda-cycling-team"><P>That may be about to change. Team Rwanda is this tiny central African country's first ever professional cycling team, and it has grand ambitions: competing in the 2012 London Olympics and, eventually, securing a place in Le Tour.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/45464222-97D3-477A-9C94-6ADF3E08F1B4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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