World, where is SA??

[Gen]

We are not a cycling nation, how many dutch rugby teams do you see? Belgian rugby teams?

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[Icycling]

We are not a cycling nation, how many dutch rugby teams do you see? Belgian rugby teams?

But could we be? Given the fact Chris Froome learnt his trade here.

 

When we came out of isolation soon after, Willie Engelbrecht won commonwealth games medal, David George and James Perry both won U23 world TT championship medals and more recently Louis Meintjies has shown his class on the world stage! What about the likes of the late Burry Stander and Gregg Minnaar. Not too mention all the Vets who have done well in world championship event in the past few years. I have even failed to mention Daryl Impey, Nolan Hoffman, Robert Hunter and Bernard Esterhuizen till now.

 

I would say we not doing to badly as a cycle nation. But more RSA people will remember the name of the late Ertjies Bezuidenhout and ALAN van Heerden then some off the more recent RSA stars of cycling.

 

Then I suppose it's worth mentioning the 2 largest times cycle events in the world are hold in RSA. I sure government / SARS collects quite a bit of revenue from the overall cycle industry in RSA!

[Vetseun]

She did, but think the point that is trying to be made is the lack of numbers we have sent.

 

Could be down to how many we are actually allowed to send, but I'm guessing the self-funding policy is probably the reason this problem exists.

 

Well do you expect the ANC Government to pay for them to go? The ANC also needs to eat you know!

[andydude]

National Team for the 2017 UCI Road World Championships (NOR)

 

Elite Men:

Daryl Impey

Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

Jaco Venter

Willie Smit

 

U23:

Stefan de Bod

Nicholas Dlamini

Morne van Niekerk

 

Elite Women:

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio

Heidi Dalton

Chane Jonker

 

Junior Men:

Devin Shortt

Ryan Terry

Jason Oosthuizen

 

Junior Women:

Ashleigh Parsons

Tiffany Keep

Elne Owen

Nadia van Niekerk

 

Heidi Dalton, Jaco Venter, Nicholas Dlamini, Stefan de Bod and Tiffany Keep have withdrawn from the team due to personal reasons.

 

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[Gen]

 

 

Heidi Dalton, Jaco Venter, Nicholas Dlamini, Stefan de Bod and Tiffany Keep have withdrawn from the team due to personal reasons.

 

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Code for.. I just can't afford it.

 

 

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[Icycling]

Code for.. I just can't afford it.

 

 

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For whatever reason, I find that a pity. Morne van Niekerk U23, did not make it either.

 

Maybe getting RSA mentioned by the international commentator - like was evident today and was not yesterday in he U23 race has ZERO value. But again for whatever reason I believe it does have value for the country.

[SwissVan]

We are not a cycling nation, how many dutch rugby teams do you see? Belgian rugby teams?

Rugby is not the be all and end of of sport in SA and rugby does not even have an annual world championship. (Thankfully)

While it might be the "national sport" along with soccer, how much financial support do the national rugby and soccer teams get from the state I wonder.....

 

Forget getting support from the state, fringe sports like cycling will never get it right.

Cycling might not be a national sport but it is a relatively big sport in SA if you consider the number of events and participants taking part every year.

There are other ways to raise funds, if some individual riders can raise their own funds then the national and regional cycling bodies should be able to the same.

 

A simple way imo would be a small "Worlds" levy on every race entry, let's say 1 Rond

Just think how much that would raise in one year

No doubt, even in our relatively expensive sport of cycling where people will spend ridiculous amounts on bicycles, cycling kit, supplements.... there will be nay sayers who will say WTF should we subsidize these elites...

[Geronimo]

Question. Do other countries pay for their national riders to travel/compete?

[kosmonooit]

It probably varies from country to country .. but even if CSA didn't have the cash (in this case after wasting it on their good selves and hotch-potch nonsense schemes such as that frigging "App')  - they could fund raise to get our athletes competing with the best in the world, but instead they shrug their shoulders and say "we cant help you"  - FAIL!

 

Oz even has a base / house in Italy (?) to help their athletes get established there, as does the USA.

[gtr1]

A certain Mr Bradley is responsible for getting sponsors for cycling SA. I think in the past 4 years he has not landed 1:-(

[Prince Albert Cycles]

And who knows how many CSA officials went to the Worlds , fully funded ?

[kosmonooit]

And who knows how many CSA officials went to the Worlds , fully funded ?

 

How do we find out?

[Gen]

How do we find out?

Well I can't see a Saffa delegate missing out on the UCI vote the other day.. so at least one would've been there..[emoji6]

 

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[kosmonooit]

The vote was done by an inner circle apparently

[The Bull Shark]

This is exactly the reason why I told my son that being a professional cyclist in SA is a dead end street. Rather study hard, have a good job so that you can buy all the 2 wheel toys that you can afford, and spend your money doing lots of stage races and enjoying it.

[Jewbacca]

This is exactly the reason why I told my son that being a professional cyclist in SA is a dead end street. Rather study hard, have a good job so that you can buy all the 2 wheel toys that you can afford, and spend your money doing lots of stage races and enjoying it.

Or... Spend lots of money riding super amazing places with rad people where the fun side of riding bikes is more important than the race side.

 

That way he won't need a power meter, be obsessed with stats and zone 2 and post pictures of himself staring at his stem saying 'welcome to the sufferfest... 22 x 10 minute max.. pain cave rararara' but will have his mates post pictures of him clearing doubles and smiling and being radical.

 

(again, just my 2c... racing bikes is actually lame. Riding bikes is rad)