{"id":6271,"date":"2017-02-21T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2017-02-21T02:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:30:58","slug":"tamil-superstar-arya-along-with-ciclo-cafe-announces-indias-only-elite-amateur-cycle-racing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/tamil-superstar-arya-along-with-ciclo-cafe-announces-indias-only-elite-amateur-cycle-racing-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Superstar Arya along with Ciclo Cafe announces India&#8217;s only elite amateur Cycle Racing Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arvind-Ashsih-Thadani-Arya-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Arvind - Ashsih Thadani - Arya - Ciclo Team Racing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arvind-Ashsih-Thadani-Arya-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arvind-Ashsih-Thadani-Arya-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arvind-Ashsih-Thadani-Arya-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Arvind-Ashsih-Thadani-Arya.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Continuing its commitment to the cycling community, Ciclo Caf\u00c3\u00a9 today announced &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc <strong>Ciclo Team Racing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 &#8211; India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only Elite Amateur Cycle Racing Team. <\/strong>Having <strong>Naveen John <\/strong>, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first International pro cyclist as a team director, mentor and rider, the team will be training under his leadership. At the <strong>launch, Ciclo unveiled the team jersey, rider bikes<\/strong> <strong>and announced the team member names- Naveen John and Arvind Panwar <\/strong>(Two-time winner at the National Championships). Two young riders &#8211; Parashuram Chenji and Aman Punjani from Hyderabad will be the team&#8217;s first two development riders for 2017. Ciclo Team Racing &#8211; The brainchild of Bachi Pullela and Ashish Thadani, with a dream to bring Indian cycling to the international racing scene. The team&#8217;s focus will be rider development from every perspective \u00e2\u20ac\u201c training, coaching, nutrition, equipment and racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-and-Arvind-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Naveen John and Arvind - Ciclo Team Racing\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-and-Arvind-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-and-Arvind-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-and-Arvind-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-and-Arvind.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Speaking on occasion of the launch, <strong>Ashish R Thadani (CEO, TI Absolute Concepts ) <\/strong>said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 <em>Ciclo<\/em> <em>Caf\u00c3\u00a9 was formed with a vision to bring together members of the cycling community, increase awareness about cycling and foster cycling excellence in the community. This is our effort to nurture young talent and expose them to cycling at an international level. Becoming a professional cyclist requires not just talent and an extraordinary amount of hard work on the part of the cyclist, but also requires a support system that empowers the cyclist with the best equipment, knowledge, coaching, training and racing opportunities<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 <em>It is always a great feeling to represent India internationally and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about time that we build our aspirations and get laurels for the country. We have a few very important races coming up, Asian Cycling Championships, World Championships in Norway and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Having to be a part of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCiclo Team Racing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, pushes the adrenaline to train young athletes who can further participate in international races and carry Ciclo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palette of colours.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em>said, <strong>Naveen John.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-at-Ciclo-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Naveen John at Ciclo - Ciclo Team Racing\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-at-Ciclo-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-at-Ciclo-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-at-Ciclo-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Naveen-John-at-Ciclo.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Renowned <strong>Actor Arya <\/strong>who is an avid cyclist himself, graced the occasion and lauded the effort in putting together this team and giving a platform to Indian cyclists to enhance their skills. The core team of Ciclo Team Racing will consist of 6 handpicked riders who are among the best in the country. They will be taking part in National as well as International races. The team will have a regular racing calendar that will include marquee events in India. Naveen and Arvind will represent India at International events such as the UCI World Championships. <strong>The team will travel<\/strong> <strong>to Belgium &#8211; Home of Ridley Bikes, for 3 months <\/strong>in summer for training and race simulations,\u00c2\u00a0where riders will be exposed to world class training and development facilities. The team sponsors will be &#8211; Ridley bikes, 2Go for cycling kits and Apparel, FSA and Vision for Equipment and support from Track &amp; Trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its commitment to the cycling community, Ciclo Caf\u00c3\u00a9 today announced &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc Ciclo Team Racing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 &#8211; India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only Elite Amateur Cycle Racing Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,13],"tags":[8302,8305,8303,8307,8306,8304],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-movies-serials-drama-leisure","category-movies-films-cinema","category-sports-indoor-outdoor","tag-ciclo-cafe","tag-ciclo-team-racing","tag-elite-amateur-cycle-racing-team","tag-indias-first-international-pro-cyclist","tag-naveen-john","tag-tamil-superstar-arya"],"views":3050,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ashish-Thadani-Naveen-John-Arun-and-Arvind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}