A joint cycle of success

CYCLING RIDERS from the Canadian and Israeli national teams will attend a joint heat training camp ahead of the 2016 UCI World Championships, taking place in Doha.

In a special joint venture the partnership, sponsored and supported by Team Cycling Academy, will see Israeli cyclists Zohar Hadari, Guy Sagiv, Aviv Yechezkel and Omer Goldstein link up with Guillaume Boivin of Canada.

The opportunity to hold the training camp and take advantage of all quota spots available to Canada was made possible by the financial contributions of the Bridge the Gap fund and Sylvan Adams, a former Montreal businessman now living in Tel Aviv, who also backs the Cycling Academy Team.

“The training camp in Israel has been designed to simulate the terrain, wind conditions and hot temperatures the riders will face in Qatar,” said Sylvan Adams, a former Montreal resident and a member of Team Cycling Academy board of directors.

The Canadian men’s Elite, U23 and women’s national teams will train with their Israeli counterparts.

Adams said: “This will help build new bonds of friendship and collaboration between the athletes, their National Cycling bodies, coaches and support staff, and ultimately on a higher level, the countries of my two nationalities.

“I look forward to further collaborations between the two programmes in the future, including more training camps in Israel, which has fantastic terrain, weather and people.”