Team Dimension Data doesn’t think small. Africa’s first pro cycling team has set itself the goal of producing the continent’s first Tour de France winner by 2020.
And it wants you and me in the peloton.
In 2018 alone, T&W travelled with Team Didata to both the Tour De France and the Giro de Italia as well as several smaller tours, and spent considerable time with the team in training.
It’s all designed to put cycling fans on the bus with Team Dimension Data as it heads to some of the most spectacular sporting locations on earth.
T&W is working with Team Didata to produce a rich tapestry of real-time on-the-scene sports storytelling, including films, social media and exclusive insights into the lives of the cycling and support teams.
Sport storytelling doesn’t get more gritty than this. The highs are real, and so are the lows.
The pressure, the stress and exhaustion, the insane hours; the cuts, grazes and broken bones, are all real.
The logistics of keeping a top-level pro cycling outfit on the move — staggering.
With Team Didata, we’re rewriting the book on in-depth sports coverage, producing new types of narrative from new perspectives...
... and even redefining how a global professional sports organization stays rooted in the continent it calls home.
That’s because Team Dimension Data works closely with innovative non-profit Qhubeka to put bikes into the hands of kids in communities across Africa as part of the #BicyclesChangeLives campaign.
For Team Didata, Qhubeka it’s more than a partnership, it’s at the centre of everything they do, from unveiling the team in a township school to clipping in to tackle the Alpe d’ Heuz.
It’s a commitment T&W is proud to be part of, supporting Qhubeka here at home with top-quality video content and even helping to assemble bicycles for distribution.
Like Team Didata, we’re pushing our skills, endurance, equipment and commitment to the limit to achieve our vision of what is possible.
And, like Team Didata, we wouldn’t have it any other way.
RETHINKING SPORTS STORYTELLING
On tour with Team Dimension Data
Credits:
T&W, Simon Connellan/UNSPLASH, Carli Smith/QHUBEKA