Stander Teams Up with USN
Cherise Stander has teamed up with international sports nutrition supplement brand, USN, as she shifts her focus to mountain bike racing in 2013.
Triple-Jump Champ Saddles Up for XCO
SA triple-jump champ Charlene Potgieter retires from athletics, sets sights on Olympic discipline cross-country Olympic (XCO), globally regarded as the most popular mountain bike discipline
Absa Cape Epic Pays Tribute to Women
Absa Cape Epic celebrates growth of race among women participants. The popular seven-day race saw 85.57% of women who participated cross the finish line in 2012.
Nike Says Yes to Women in Sport
SA surfer Roxy Louw says Yes to Nike Women’s Here I Am campaign, during the influencer launch in Cape Town on 19 February 2008. In addition to the physical benefits, playing sport improves your mental and emotional strength, it enhances self-esteem and provides a social platform amongst friends. These are some of the insights from […]
MTN Puts Millions into Bike Racing
Cherise Taylor will head the MTN 5-woman professional cycling team with Marissa van der Merwe. Cellular network giant MTN has increased its commitment to South African cycling, by announcing a three-year sponsorship of mountain biking in South Africa, as well as becoming the official communications supplier to the Absa Cape Epic.
Testosterone-Free Mountain Biking
Hanlie Booysens grits her way up another farm road in the picturesque Elgin Valley in the Western Cape, scene for the 2007 ladies-only Lebanon Mountain Bike ride scheduled for the weekend of the 27 October. Pictures courtesy Dirtopia. Mountain biking without any testosterone! Yes, ladies, this is a wonderful opportunity, the only one of its […]
Team Duravit Scoop Cape Epic
The Ladies Division of the 2007 Absa Cape Epic race was scooped up by South Africans Anke Erlank-Moore and Yolandè de Villiers of Team Duravit, who lead the race from start to finish, without conceding the stage leaders’ tag once during the 8-stage endurance challenge.
Local Girls Open Cape Epic Lead
Team Duravit have clinched their fourth stage win on day 4 of the 2007 Absa Cape Epic, with team members Anke Erlank-Moore and Yolandè de Villiers crossed the finish line in Barrydale after four and three-quarter hours, close to a half-hour ahead of stage runners-up Kristine and Anna-Sofie Noergaard (Denmark).
SA Ladies Lead Cape Epic
South Africa continues to lead the women’s division in the 2007 ABSA Cape Epic after stage 2’s Uniondale to Oudtshoorn provisional rankings, when 2006 SA Woman’s Marathon Mountain Biker of the Year Yolande de Villiers and Duravit team partner Anke Erlank-Moore edged home more than 22 minutes in front of their nearest competitors on Sunday.
2006 December Style Star: Margaret Van Der Westhuizen
We got to know her as “Mad Mags” on the very first edition of Big Brother South Africa. Since then, the energetic Durbanite has gone from tomboy to madam, and in the process is having the time of her life. Margaret van der Westhuizen was one of the fans’ favourites in BB1. Her laugh, her […]