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  1. Which blue line is 2024 ? if its the lowest one then 2023 and 2024 were some of the highest drop outs ?
  2. 3rd in her first race for the team ! Not too shabby
  3. Not complaining as i am not riding
  4. Cock up of note, backmarkers might as well pur bike on back and hike a bike straight up the mountain and ignore the marked route. Is this the EPIC or the Freedom Challenge
  5. 2 Tickrs failed on me - rust on contact points and inside. Use in the sea for paddling /surfski so that might be an issue. Garmin dual is great until you have to change batteries - screws are tiny and strip easily. Using Magene at the moment - cheaper and no issues yet. Tickr and Magene easier to change batteriesn- just a coin to open back. Always rinse and dry sensor /contact points - salt form seat and the sea is a killer
  6. Alternative to Garmon Varia : https://www.takealot.com/magene-l508-review-radar-tail-light/PLID91445209
  7. https://drugfreesport.org.za/cases/?athlete_sport=cycling doping amongst SA vets is high - 4 recent positive cases
  8. think nearly everybody was riding 2.4s which were perfect for 7 and 1/3 days especially in Hermanus area with lots of loose sand , but as you say nightmare when the rain started on day 6. With hindsight would have changed but bike shops/service guys we used wouldn't have had any that narrow anyway ..... Guys also pushed there bikes in the muddy uphill sections instead of picking up and carrying them on their backs, problem solved.
  9. Good to hear ! My mates weren’t happy with it and gave it a skip. Got food outside race village.
  10. Maybe another factor ( not withstanding a bacterial stomach bug that was doing the rounds according the pharmacist and a doctor I visited in Somerset West), was that the finish line food quality was shocking to say the least. No more Woolies. Cost cutting ? Not sure what the dinners for the campers was like but if same caterers it couldn't have been good. I was lucky enough to be hosted by ABSA ,which was world class, and stay in hotels'. Huge respect for anybody that camped in the mud and ate that food, and still finished.
  11. What the photo doesn’t show is a 2 meter high 45 degree wooden ramp to get up to the single track which was covered in mud Totally unrideable. And there was a great atmosphere in the queue , everybody in great spirit after the mudfest slugfest the day before. Will be a long time before Lourensford trails are rideable again. Absolutely destroyed.
  12. So lets look at past MTB pros who dominated the early days of MTB stage racing like Sani in SA : George, Evans, Stewart, Knox, Wilson, Croeser, all tested positive and banned/sanctioned. A lot of podium positions would have been very different. And that's only the "pros"s that got caught. That's a significant amount of positives for such a small sample of pro mtb riders. And how many wannabee vets and masters racers were doping during that time who were never tested ......
  13. "Thirdly, at 50, look at her results compared to the men, not the women, and tell me what your gut tells you about her performance." This is the sentence that needs to be unpacked i.e. are her performance levels and times unnatural for a 50 year old ?
  14. https://www.arrivealive.co.za/news.aspx?s=1&i=61321&page=cyclist-critical-following-collision-with-car-m4-sibaya 26 year old driver allegedly arrested at flats near Sibaya Circle after hit and run One of the guys is critical , underwent brain surgery and the other is ok happened on climb up to Sibaya Circle from Umhlanga lagoon, double lane, driver left scene of accident
  15. Now the case goes back to Swiss Sports Integrity. In compliance with the Stakeholder Notice, the national anti-doping agency can, if necessary, re-evaluate the A sample of June 5, 2022 as an abnormal or atypical analysis result. Swiss Sports Integrity cannot legally contest the decision of the Disciplinary Chamber. The organization is still of the opinion that, due to the extensive investigations, there was an abnormal analysis result and the provisional ban was therefore absolutely necessary. According to your information, Swiss Sport Integrity will review the decision and take the next steps based on it.
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