{"id":15800,"date":"2018-08-17T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/08\/17\/no-stellenbosch-world-cup-in-2019-r7492\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:47:21","slug":"no-stellenbosch-world-cup-in-2019-r7492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/no-stellenbosch-world-cup-in-2019-r7492\/","title":{"rendered":"No Stellenbosch World Cup in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Absa Cape Epic announced today that it will not be hosting the opening leg of the UCI XCO World Cup Series again in 2019, but plans to present \u201cbigger and better\u201d versions in the following years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29902700-1534519391.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1293642\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1293642\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-29902700-1534519391.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29902700-1534519391.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Credit: Andrew McFadden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Absa Cape Epic (managing director Michael Flinn) said: \u201cAfter our initial and highly successful event this year the UCI has requested that we sign a two-year commitment. We have decided to aim rather for the 2020 and 2021 events,\u201d said Flinn. \u201cThat gives us time to secure the sort of financial backing we would require to host events of the standard that we demand of ourselves. In fact, our team is already working on new plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flinn added that the Grandstand Management team which organises the Absa Cape Epic was very busy preparing the 16th edition of the Untamed African MTB Race &#8211; \u201cAnd of course we are already busy with our planning and preparations for next year\u2019s Absa Cape Epic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We would like to take this opportunity to thank the thousands of spectators that showed up for the 2018 World Cup event, the overwhelming number of people who supported us from afar and our incredible sponsors, crew, media and riders who put on an Epic show.\u2019 added Flinn.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-88416900-1534519322.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1293640\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1293640\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-88416900-1534519322.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-88416900-1534519322.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Henrique Avancini glides over Pickup Sticks. Credit: Ewald Sadie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Absa Cape Epic announced today that it will not be hosting the opening leg of the UCI XCO World Cup Series again in 2019, but plans to present \u201cbigger and better\u201d versions in the following years. Credit: Andrew McFadden. Absa Cape Epic (managing director Michael Flinn) said: \u201cAfter our initial and highly successful event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[559],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-15800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-epic-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800","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=15800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15800"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=15800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}