{"id":17388,"date":"2016-11-14T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/11\/14\/top-german-pro-donates-kit-to-sa-cycling-development-academy-r5814\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:27:50","slug":"top-german-pro-donates-kit-to-sa-cycling-development-academy-r5814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/top-german-pro-donates-kit-to-sa-cycling-development-academy-r5814\/","title":{"rendered":"Top German pro donates kit to SA cycling development academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top German pro cyclist, Johannes Fr\u00f6hlinger, of Team Giant-Alpecin, on Thursday donated kit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/velokhaya.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy<\/a> in Cape Town\u2019s Khayelitsha township and encouraged development cyclists to pursue their dreams of becoming champions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-42384300-1479109407.jpg\" data-fileid=\"840447\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"840447\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-42384300-1479109407.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-42384300-1479109407.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fr\u00f6hlinger, who recently placed 14th at China\u2019s Tour of Hainan where teammate Max Walscheid celebrated five stage wins, is in South Africa on vacation during the international off-season.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday he visited the Velokhaya academy which combines cycling with education to help develop disadvantaged athletes. Fr\u00f6hlinger donated cycling shirts, bibs, water bottles and caps and shared about his decade as a professional before cycling around the township with some of the academy\u2019s athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy has produced professionals Songezo Jim and Luthando Kaka. Managing director Sipho Mona welcomed Fr\u00f6hlinger\u2019s support, explaining that the Academy\u2019s work had helped provide direction and hope for scores of township youths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top German pro cyclist, Johannes Fr\u00f6hlinger, of Team Giant-Alpecin, on Thursday donated kit to the Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy in Cape Town\u2019s Khayelitsha township and encouraged development cyclists to pursue their dreams of becoming champions. Fr\u00f6hlinger, who recently placed 14th at China\u2019s Tour of Hainan where teammate Max Walscheid celebrated five stage wins, is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2053,2054,1661],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-17388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-johannes-frohlinger","tag-team-giant-alpecin","tag-velokhaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388","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=17388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17388"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=17388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}