{"id":36929,"date":"2018-02-06T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/discipline-is-our-springboard-for-shining-in\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:52:58","slug":"discipline-is-our-springboard-for-shining-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/discipline-is-our-springboard-for-shining-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline is our springboard for shining in competition-Areruya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Areruya was speaking to the media yesterday after he and teammates were welcomed in a pompous reception at Kigali International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Made up of six cyclists, the team leader Areruya took home the title of Tour de l\u2019Espoir that took place last week in Cameroun, a week after winning the Tropicale Amissa Bongo that took place in Ivory Cost.<\/p>\n<p>Areruya said that through different competitions, they developed confidence that they believe will help them in shining in World top cycling competitions. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cShining in these competitions that we participated in the last few months proves that Rwandans are capable of competing in top World cycling competitions like Tour de France and Giro d\u2019Italia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the force behind his success Areruya said \u201cthe first is discipline, training, understanding and implementing my leaders\u2019 advice. My coaches, leaders and comrades help me a lot,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Secretary General for Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY), Aimable Bayingana hailed the progress in the game adding that they target to train more young local cyclists.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThree victories a period of less than four months are worthwhile. People have been wondering why Rwandans do not win international competitions, but now that team has proven that it is possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tour de l\u2019Epoir victory qualified Team Rwanda to participate in Tour de l\u2019Avenir for under 23-year cycling competitions that will take place in August in France. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23949 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_1708-5fd56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23950 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_1596-b7216.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Cyclist star Joseph Areruya has said that discipline is the major force behind shining in different competitions that Rwandan cyclists are participating in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36929"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}