{"id":21529,"date":"2013-10-02T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/10\/02\/video-world-championship-dreams-come-true-r992\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:22:18","slug":"video-world-championship-dreams-come-true-r992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/video-world-championship-dreams-come-true-r992\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; World Championship dreams come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truly inspirational story of Theo Ngubane, who grabbed a once in a lifetime opportunity and charged forward to pursue his dream.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8EMpUs5qL4\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8EMpUs5qL4<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Songo.info and Specialized, Theo was able to join a program where he could push himself on a bicycle and really gain some proper skills to eventually race. And race is what he did. First practicing around a BMX track near his home, he eventually upgraded to a Specialized Demo DH bike and became the first black South African to race at the UCI World Champs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\nThis was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikehub.co.za\/topic\/126507-enduro-dh-vids-20\/page__st__48?do=findComment&amp;comment=2081944\" rel=\"external nofollow\">posted<\/a> in the forums by Super_mil, who beat me to the punch\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly inspirational story of Theo Ngubane, who grabbed a once in a lifetime opportunity and charged forward to pursue his dream. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8EMpUs5qL4 Thanks to Songo.info and Specialized, Theo was able to join a program where he could push himself on a bicycle and really gain some proper skills to eventually race. And race is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[719,95,5176,135,5175],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-songo-info","tag-specialized","tag-theo-ngubane","tag-video","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}