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Tour of Qatar #5: Theo Bos crashes out of Qatar
The 5th stage of the Tour of Qatar saw an exact repeat of the stage 4 podium with Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) taking the win ahead of Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) and Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin). Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung unfortunately suffered the loss of Theo Bos who crashed out of the race. The stage got off to […]
Land Rover to be the Official Vehicle Sponsor of the Absa Cape Epic
Land Rover is the Official Vehicle of the 2015 Absa Cape Epic, it was announced today. The legendary all-terrain vehicle manufacturer will supply vehicles to the eight-day mountain bike stage race from 15 – 22 March. Discovery Sport, Discovery and Defender models will be used by the Absa Cape Epic team to traverse the rugged […]
Rugby legends ride again at Absa Cape Epic
Since 2008, when Robbi Kempson became the first former Springbok rugby player to complete the Absa Cape Epic, retired Boks have been drawn to the event like Bryan Habana to the tryline. Local luminaries of the sport like 1995 Rugby World Cup winners Chester Williams, Joel Stransky and Marius Hurter have all completed the race, […]
Stoltz and Steyn show their class claiming DualX opener victories
The highly anticipated showdown between duathlon racing star, Brand du Plessis, and multiple Xterra World Champion, Conrad Stoltz, played out in spectacular fashion at the first leg of the Momentum Health OatWell Dual Cross, powered by PeptoPro near Pretoria at the weekend. Stoltz was admittedly anxious about tackling Du Plessis on his home turf and […]
Inter School Eliminator Series: Third and Final Round…
This Sunday 15 February sees the final round of the Inter School Eliminator Series for the Western Cape taking place at Bloemendal Wine Estate. The farm manager, Lombard Loubser has dived in behind the event and suggested a awesome route which includes riding over the swimming pool! Riders are going to tackle a very mixed […]
Moolman Pasio and Grmay claim Time Trial spoils at African Champs
The riders at the Confederation of African Cycling Road Championships were given some respite from the weather on Wednesday for the Individual Time Trials of the Elite Men and Women and it was South African star Ashleigh Moolman Pasio who added a continental champs title to her impressive list of achievements in recent times with […]
Tour of Qatar #4: Jaco Venter attacks in the wind
The 4th stage of the Tour of Qatar saw Jaco Venter go on the offensive, attacking with Dimitry Gruzdev (Astana) and Jarl Salomein (Topsport-Vlaanderen) after just 10km of racing. The trio built a lead of up to 3’45” at one stage before the prevailing winds ignited the chase from the peloton. The escape was not […]
Mennen’s epic Epic journey
Germany’s Robert Mennen seems destined to have an interesting relationship with the Absa Cape Epic. In 2013 he was forced out of the race when he hit what he described as “a peeg” as he descended on singletrack during Stage 1 near Citrusdal. The pig, it turned out, was a duiker (small antelope) and in […]
SA Juniors storm through at African Champs Day Two
The second day of the Confederation of African Cycling African Road Championships dawned just as swelteringly hot as day one with the two junior divisions taking to the 24km Time Trial course and it was the South African riders who claimed the spoils in both the Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s races. Algerian Junior Time […]
Tour of Qatar #3: Edvald Boasson Hagen secures 8th in TT
The 3rd stage of the Tour of Qatar had riders tackle a 10.9km individual time trial. After yesterday’s brutal day in the desert where riders were battered by sand and wind, the peloton were again exposed to the unrelenting elements albeit for just 10.9km. Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung had Edvald Boasson Hagen give the course […]
Joker José looks for consistency
If there was a prize for popularity at the Absa Cape Epic the Spanish/Dutch combination of José Hermida and Rudi van Houts would be the winners by some distance. The irrepressible Spaniard is always smiling, always ready with a joke and appears to have an endless supply of good humour. Van Houts is a bit […]
Team South Africa dominate day one of African Road Champs
The 2015 Confederation of African Cycling (CAC) Road Championships got underway in sweltering conditions on Monday in Wartburg with the various Team Time Trial events taking place as the South African teams dominated proceedings claiming all but one of the gold medals that were on offer. The day started with the Junior Women and the […]