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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic opportunity to be racing for Team Spur next year. The people involved are very athlete-focussed and the results they achieved this year are testament to that, with James [Reid] winning SA Champs and qualifying for the Olympics and Ariane [Kleinhans, now L\u00fcthi] winning the Swiss Champs, getting into XCO and winning the Cape Epic,\u201d said Hatherly.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy short term goals are to win SA Champs and finish top five at World Champs in 2017, but my longer term goal is getting a medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Team Spur are fully behind me and have ensured I get to do to a lot of European-based racing next year,\u201d added Hatherly, who recently moved from his home province of KwaZulu-Natal to Cape Town.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very excited to be working closely with Alan next season. He is a fierce young talent who will make a fantastic ambassador to the Spur Schools Mountain Bike League,\u201d said Nic Lamond, Team Spur Director.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt he will grow under the guidance of Ariane L\u00fcthi and with our expert staff in full support. With Spur and Specialized, we look forward to exposing Alan to a level of professionalism and world-class competition he has yet to experience,\u201d added Lamond.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to start working with Alan. I think he has amazing talent \u2013 what it takes to become a very special athlete. He has already been to the Olympics so I can\u2019t wait to see what he will do in another four years after more training and experience,\u201d said L\u00fcthi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have travelled with Alan in Europe before and know how professional his approach is. I\u2019m excited to be part of his journey on Team Spur,\u201d added L\u00fcthi.<\/p>\n
James Reid, the current South African XCO champion, will not be racing with Team Spur in 2017. He has chosen to take a break from full-time racing to focus on his studies.<\/p>\n
The full-time team 2017 line up is: Ariane L\u00fcthi (rider), Alan Hatherly (rider), JP Jacobs (mechanic), Tim Bassingthwaighte (manager), Nic Lamond (director).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team Spur, South Africa\u2019s most progressive mountain bike team, has added Rio Olympian, Alan Hatherly, to its line-up for 2017. The 20-year-old finished a respectable 26th at the Olympic Games in Rio earlier this year, confirming a bright future as a cross-country (XCO) racer. With Team Spur\u2019s backing, the reigning Under-23 African XCO champion will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[134,483],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-alan-hatherly","tag-team-spur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","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=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}