This new items has been provided by Team Spur On Sunday morning, 30 September, Team Spur’s Ariane Lüthi lined up in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, close to the southern shores of Lake Zurich for the start of the Swiss Marathon Championships. One hundred kilometers – and over 3,700m of climbing – later the Swiss powerhouse came home ahead of […]
Kollman and Lüthi pair up for Cape Epic
Related Event: ABSA Cape Epic
With just a few weeks to go until the 2018 Absa Cape Epic, the women’s field is showing its strength. The XXIII Winter Olympic Games kick off this week in PyeongChang, but at least one athlete from snow-mad Austria packed her sports bags for South Africa, and not South Korea. Christina Kollmann-Forstner bucked the trend, […]
Beukes and Lüthi claim Attakwas accolades
Related Event: Attakwas Extreme MTB Challenge - UCI XCM Series
It’s January, and the cycling world is not just waking up but starting to fire on all cylinders. With two Australian National XCO races, a UCI S1 stage race with the Snow Bike Festival, and the first race in the UCI XCM Series – 2018 is off to a flying start. This past weekend, a […]
3Epic – 2018 Marathon MTB World Championships preview
In 2018 the World Cross-country Mountain Bike Marathon Championships head back to Italy, to a mountainous course in the Dolomites – running alongside the 3Epic event. The 2017 edition has proven to be an excellent preview for the organisers, racers and fans. Italian Samuele Porro (Team Trek Selle San Marco) just won the 2017 edition of the […]
Ashburton Investments match women’s prize money in response to Lüthi’s message
On the weekend, Ariane Lüthi posted on her Facebook page that she would sit out the race in Grabouw as the event did not offer equal prize money for men and women. But on Monday, Ashburton Investments, the title sponsor of the South African National MTB Series, has announced it will equal the Elite women’s prize money. While […]