Sara Yasser

Sara Yasser from Egypt shows us the room she shares with three other scholars at the Flandrien Hotel — full of cycling artwork, cycling vibes and fun (except when someone snores at night).

When she arrived, Sara wasn't confident in herself or her racing, and the past few years had been hard. One evening she told her friends about it. The next day they took her out to the garden, where they had prepared drawings for her and baked an apple pie. It wasn't about the drawings or the pie, she says — it was that they cared, listened, and tried to make her feel like herself again.

"Everyone is like a family. It's a home away from home, and I am happy to be part of this family."