{"id":719326,"date":"2026-07-30T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:56:09","slug":"meet-the-women-of-team-amani-dreaming-of-the-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/719326\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the women of Team Amani dreaming of the Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The size of the peloton is huge and the style of the racing is completely different,\u2019 says Merhawit Hadush Asgodom. At 21, she is one of the youngest riders in Team Amani, an African squad made up of riders from Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s road team, whose name means \u2018peace\u2019 in Swahili, was started in 2025 as a project to enable African cyclists to race internationally, but adapting to racing in France and Spain is proving to be somewhat challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The size of the peloton is huge and the style of the racing is completely different,\u2019 says Merhawit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,217023,101,6549,56,54,55,23725],"class_list":["post-719326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist-magazine","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-womens-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}