{"id":15177,"date":"2020-04-29T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2020\/04\/29\/video-rob-meets-tahnee-seagrave-r8119\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:39:25","slug":"video-rob-meets-tahnee-seagrave-r8119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/video-rob-meets-tahnee-seagrave-r8119\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Rob meets Tahn\u00e9e Seagrave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRob Meets\u2026\u201d is kicking off its fourth season with a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with British downhill mountain biker Tahn\u00e9e Seagrave.<\/p>\n<p>In this first episode of &#8220;Rob Meets&#8230;&#8221; Rob Warner travels to Llanfyllin, in North Wales, to catch up with multiple World Cup Winner Tahn\u00e9e Seagrave early in 2020. Dubbed by Rob as \u201cthe woman who leads the new generation of female downhillers\u201d, the series provides a unique insight into what makes Tahn\u00e9e tick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_6afrramWU?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In it Tahn\u00e9e gives Rob a tour of her HQ and explains why Northern Wales is better than Morzine as a base for downhill training and gives him an insight into her intense rivalry with childhood hero Rachel Atherton; one of the downhill\u2019s biggest stories. She reveals that her first racing victory was \u201cnot a win\u201d as Atherton was missing but her second, when she beat everyone, was the big one: \u201cI\u2019d shown the world what I was capable of. And I learned the only thing I need to focus on is my ride and the clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob also gets the chance to speak with Tony Seagrave, Tahn\u00e9e\u2019s Dad and Team Manager, who discloses the predicitions he made in 2004, on a t-shirt. He also explains how he has learned to deal with the dual roles of Father and Manager. To round it off, Rob heads out with Tahn\u00e9e and her brother Kaos to try their local trails and enjoy the Welsh weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRob Meets\u2026\u201d is kicking off its fourth season with a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with British downhill mountain biker Tahn\u00e9e Seagrave. In this first episode of &#8220;Rob Meets&#8230;&#8221; Rob Warner travels to Llanfyllin, in North Wales, to catch up with multiple World Cup Winner Tahn\u00e9e Seagrave early in 2020. Dubbed by Rob as \u201cthe woman who leads the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[207],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-downhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}