{"id":18707,"date":"2016-02-17T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/protests-in-sabie-lead-to-potential-postponement-of-ashburton-investments-national-mtb-series-race-r4166\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:40:34","slug":"protests-in-sabie-lead-to-potential-postponement-of-ashburton-investments-national-mtb-series-race-r4166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/protests-in-sabie-lead-to-potential-postponement-of-ashburton-investments-national-mtb-series-race-r4166\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Sabie lead to potential postponement of Ashburton Investments National MTB Series race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The violent protests that are raging in Sabie have put the Sabie Ashburton Investments National MTB Series, one of South Africa\u2019s most established classics on the mountain biking circuit in jeopardy. The event that is due to take place this weekend attracted some of the big stars in international and local mountain biking is now faced with the reality that it will potentially be forced to cancel and postpone the event to a suitable date in the future.<\/p>\n

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According to Fritz Pienaar from Advendurance his team have been on the ground and very involved with local authorities to monitor the situation, but with the volatile and increasingly violent protests the police and local council have indicated that they will not allow an event to take place while they can\u2019t dedicate any resources to secure the safety of visitors. \u201cWe have no choice but to consider postponement at this stage, this was the first time in all my years of organising events that we\u2019ve been forced to deal with something like this, but at the end of the day the safety of our participants are paramount\u201d Pienaar added.<\/p>\n

Local police won\u2019t allow the event to continue, unless the situation in Sabie improves significantly. Participants will be contacted tomorrow once the municipal council met with community leaders tomorrow morning, after which the police will make a decision on whether the event may go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The violent protests that are raging in Sabie have put the Sabie Ashburton Investments National MTB Series, one of South Africa\u2019s most established classics on the mountain biking circuit in jeopardy. The event that is due to take place this weekend attracted some of the big stars in international and local mountain biking is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[904,69],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-national-mtb-series","tag-sabie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707","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=18707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}