{"id":19740,"date":"2015-07-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/02\/uci-mountain-bike-world-cup-lenzerheide-xco-amp-dhi-r2885\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T03:00:00","slug":"uci-mountain-bike-world-cup-lenzerheide-xco-amp-dhi-r2885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/uci-mountain-bike-world-cup-lenzerheide-xco-amp-dhi-r2885\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI Mountain Bike World Cup: Lenzerheide XCO &#038; DHI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduled for the beginning of July, the Swiss resort is \u2013 along with Lourdes \u2013 one of the new venues this year. Lenzerheide will welcome the season\u2019s first combined XCO\/DHI event, which will also be the first of three rounds (2015-2017) at the venue in the lead-up to the 2018 UCI World Championships. The Swiss, traditionally strong in XCO, will have the chance to race at home and the athletes wait impatiently the first weekend of July.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cUtvruS9EAo?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Downhill Finals<\/h2>\n<p>Lenzerheide, Switzerland makes its debut as host of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. The track in the Swiss Alps is unknown territory for most of the riders and will be one of the most challenging stops in the mountain bike circuit this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Downhill Women &amp; Men<\/strong> &#8211; Saturday, July 04 at 2:30 pm SAST &#8211; Live on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.tv\/videos\/event-stream-516\/downhill-finals\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redbull.tv<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/aa.aspx?t=sport&amp;v=Cycling&amp;view=full\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SuperSport 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South African&#8217;s on the UCI entry list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MINNAAR Greg<\/p>\n<p>NEETHLING Andrew<\/p>\n<p>GARLICKI Stefan<\/p>\n<p>POTGIETER Johann<\/p>\n<p>BULL Samuel<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">Cross Country<\/h2>\n<p>Lenzerheide, Switzerland hosts the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup for the first time. The difficult track will require the riders to exert power and endurance if they want to take the crown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Country Women<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday, July 05 at 11:00 am SAST. Live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.tv\/videos\/event-stream-514\/cross-country-women\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redbull.tv<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/aa.aspx?t=sport&amp;v=Cycling&amp;view=full\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SuperSport 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Country Men<\/strong> \u2013 Sunday, July 05 at 2:00 pm SAST. Live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.tv\/videos\/event-stream-515\/cross-country-men\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redbull.tv<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersport.com\/aa.aspx?t=sport&amp;v=Cycling&amp;view=full\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SuperSport 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South African&#8217;s on the UCI entry list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men Elite:<\/p>\n<p>REID James<\/p>\n<p>CROESER Rourke<\/p>\n<p>WALKER Travis<\/p>\n<p>Women Elite:<\/p>\n<p>VALE Cherie<\/p>\n<p>STRAUSS Mariske (Injured?)<\/p>\n<p>Men U23:<\/p>\n<p>HATHERLY Alan<\/p>\n<p>Women U23:<\/p>\n<p>MAGILL Hazel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduled for the beginning of July, the Swiss resort is \u2013 along with Lourdes \u2013 one of the new venues this year. Lenzerheide will welcome the season\u2019s first combined XCO\/DHI event, which will also be the first of three rounds (2015-2017) at the venue in the lead-up to the 2018 UCI World Championships. The Swiss, [&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":[207,1814,196],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-downhill","tag-uci-mountain-bike-world-cup","tag-xco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740","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=19740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19740"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}