Gasore is one of the Rwanda Cycling Team athletes that our Ride has helped to support over the years. His compelling story, as shared by Kimberly Coats with Team Africa Rising, follows below.
Team Rwanda Cycling wrote many stories over the past near-decade about the life of Gasore Hategeka with the team. Gasore was an orphan when he accidentally found his way on to Team Rwanda. Accidental, because Gasore and another rider had come to our team house in 2009 to test. We only had one bike, so the bike was going to go the rider who did best on the watts test. Gasore and the other young man never tested that day thanks to a power outage which lasted until Jock had to leave the next day to fly to the US. We came up with another bike, and they both ended up on the team.