{"id":22259,"date":"2012-08-02T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/london-2012-olympic-cyclist-profile-bernard-esterhuizen-r235\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:38:15","slug":"london-2012-olympic-cyclist-profile-bernard-esterhuizen-r235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/london-2012-olympic-cyclist-profile-bernard-esterhuizen-r235\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Olympic Cyclist Profile: Bernard Esterhuizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bernard Esterhuizen began racing on the cycling track from the young age of eight, inspired by his father\u2019s world master\u2019s championship titles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As Esterhuizen\u2019s racing progressed through the years, his dedication and commitment to training, as well as his raw talent and ability was noted by those around him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Saturday 04 August, 19-year old track cyclist Bernard Esterhuizen will participate in the men\u2019s sprint qualifying; with the ensuing men\u2019s sprint events taking place on Sunday 5th (quarter final and race for 5th-8th place) Monday 6th August (semi-final and final events). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See Bernard &#8216;s full profile below from Cycling South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-69077800-1343898439.jpg\" data-fileid=\"132999\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"132999\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"CSA_TRACK_Bernard_Esterhuizen_Olympic Profile_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-69077800-1343898439.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-64827200-1343898441.jpg\" data-fileid=\"133000\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"133000\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"CSA_TRACK_Bernard_Esterhuizen_Olympic Profile_2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-2-0-64827200-1343898441.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Esterhuizen began racing on the cycling track from the young age of eight, inspired by his father\u2019s world master\u2019s championship titles. As Esterhuizen\u2019s racing progressed through the years, his dedication and commitment to training, as well as his raw talent and ability was noted by those around him. On Saturday 04 August, 19-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-22259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22259"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=22259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}