Each year many people apply to join Team Rynkeby-Granini Belgium. You can improve your chances of joining the team, if, in your application, you address the 10 selection criteria, which the Team Manager and the local steering committee apply to select team members.

 

  • Participants must be motivated to do what they can to raise funds for the two Belgian charities supported by the Belgian teams. The Belgian Kids' Fund for pediatric Research and The KickCancer Foundation.

  • Participants should be motivated to engage in finding sponsors.
  • Participants should, in principle, be resident in the local area to which the team is associated.

  • Participants must be in a position to find time to train with the team about twice a week during the spring (and to cycle at least 2,500 km before Tour de Paris).

  • If possible, there should be an equal number of men and women on the teams.

  • The teams should preferably comprise of both beginners and experienced amateur cyclists.

  • At least half of the participants on a team must be replaced each year (this figure takes into account that we want to secure the continuity of the project).

  • There should be participants of all ages on the team (minimum age 18 years).

  • There should be a broad range of educational and professional backgrounds represented on the team (however, each team must have at least one health professional and one bicycle mechanic).

  • Each team is permitted to reserve one or more spaces for celebrities, whose presence helps to create public interest in the project. These spaces are often filled later than the others.