{"id":18481,"date":"2016-03-19T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/03\/19\/get-ready-to-enter-for-the-2017-absa-cape-epic-r4410\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:31:00","slug":"get-ready-to-enter-for-the-2017-absa-cape-epic-r4410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/get-ready-to-enter-for-the-2017-absa-cape-epic-r4410\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to enter for the 2017 Absa Cape Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Absa Cape Epic 2017 entry process has changed with the introduction of an international lottery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As happened in previous years, <strong>100 Early Bird entries<\/strong> will be available on 21 March \u2013 the day after this year\u2019s event. These slots are available to anyone, South African or international, on a first-come-first-served basis. The advantage of securing an Early Bird slot is that an entry is secured immediately and successful applicants have a full year of training available. The 2017 price of Early Bird entries is R67 900 for South African and international riders.\n<\/li>\n<li>This will be followed by <strong>two separate lottery processes<\/strong> &#8211; one for international riders and another for South African residents.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>South African lottery:<\/strong>  Available to South African residents with a valid SA ID number. The lottery opens immediately after the Early Bird entries sell out, and closes on 30 May. South Africans will pay the SA Rand entry fee.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>International lottery:<\/strong>  International team entry fee for all riders without an SA ID number. The lottery opens immediately after the Early Bird entries are sold out, and closes on 30 May. Non-South African residents will be charged 5 490 US Dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please go to the Absa Cape Epic website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cape-epic.com\/news\/821\/us-dollar-fee-introduced-for-international-riders\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cape-epic.com\/news\/821\/us-dollar-fee-introduced-for-international-riders\/<\/a> for background on the introduction of the international lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Absa Cape Epic 2017 entry process has changed with the introduction of an international lottery. As happened in previous years, 100 Early Bird entries will be available on 21 March \u2013 the day after this year\u2019s event. These slots are available to anyone, South African or international, on a first-come-first-served basis. The advantage of [&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":[76,24],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-absa-cape-epic","tag-cape-epic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","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=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}