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In Episode 7 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast is back toregular weekly programming after super micro daily pods from the Absa Cape Epic. And as you can expect we are looking back at the 21st edition of the race, chatting about how Scott SRAM and Toyota Specialized secured their victories. Then we dive into the cold waters of Table Bay to discuss the 2025 Groot Swem, a 7.5 kilometre Robben Island cr...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 7 episode Seamus Allardice looks ahead at the Grand Finale, with at the time of recording was still set to start at 08:00. Within moments of recording the start had been postponed to 10:30 and the route amended to a 40 kilometre course in Lourensford. The absence of t...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 6 episode Seamus Allardice on the Queen Stage and looks ahead at what could be a very exciting penultimate stage. Going into the 88 kilometre, 2 550 metres of climbing, Stage 6 the general classification battles might be crystalised – but there are opportunities for s...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 5 episode Seamus Allardice reflects on a day when the race reset, paused, and prepared for the Queen Stage. Stage 4 followed the searing heat of Stage 3 and preceded the 2 850 metres of climbing in 98 kilometres on Stage 5. As such there was a little lull in the actio...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 4 episode Seamus Allardice reflects on a day when the sun blazed down and the heat affected the event. At the sharp end; even the UCI Men, who started at 06:45 on Stage 3, were exposed to extreme heat. The stage winners, Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto held off Nino...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 3 episode Seamus Allardice looks back at the Stage 2 time trial and looks ahead at a shortened route for the first day on the Paarl Trails. With the mercury set to rise into the high 30s in Paarl the temperatures on the mountain could hit 45 degrees centigrade. As such...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the2025 Absa Cape Epic with the Diverge Podcast's vlogs. In the Stage 2 episode Seamus Allardice looks back at Stage 1 and reflects on what may unfold on the longest time trial in the race’s 21 edition history. On Stage 1 we were somewhat surprised to see how Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto took the fight to Nino Schurter and Filipo Co...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the2025 Absa Cape Epic with daily the Diverge Podcast's daily vlogs. In the Stage 1 episode Seamus Allardice looks back on a dramatic Prologue with saw WILIER-VITTORIA’s Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto win the first yellow jerseys of the race. Annika Langvad Sofia and Gomez Villafane, of Toyota Specialized, won the opening stage by jus...

Candice Lill might not be riding the Absa Cape Epic this year but she popped in to commentate on the Prologue, sharing her insights with the fans around the world. After her commentary session we has a chat about her plans for 2025, her thoughts on the stellar performance of Margot Moschetti and Samara Sheppard, and manifesting goals by speaking them out loud. Read all about the 2025 Absa Cape Epi...

Tune in for daily insights from inside the media team at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic with daily the Diverge Podcast's daily vlogs. This is the pre-race preview as the Prologue, on 16 March, gets underway in Meerendal. Read the daily stories from the race on www.diverge.info.

In Episode 6 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast we look backat trilling editions of Cape Town Cycle Tour and the songo.info Champions Race, presented by fibertime. The world’s largest timed bicycle race played out in near perfect weather conditions on Sunday, 9 March, and this helped both the elite men and women to new course records. Pia Grünewald went on a 53 kilometre solo break to win the 78 kilo...

In Episode 5 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast we look ahead at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic and Cape Town Cycle Tour. March is silly season in South African cycling with the country’s biggest mountain bike and road events taking place within 7 days of each other. The CTCT might kick the racing off on Sunday, 9 March, but we start with the Untamed African Mountain Bike Race and its UCI fields. In the men...

In Episode 4 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast we rope in Jason Boulle and Jess Menier to reflect a dramatic day of racing at the Big 5 by Imbuko Wines and Canetsfontein. The men’s and women’s races were won by the defendingchampions, Filipo Colombo and Candice Lill, but those facts tell so little of the story. Tristan Nortje claimed the R20 000 King of the Mountain prize before leading Colombo and...

In Episode 3 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast we feature apreview of the Big 5 by Imbuko Wines and Canetsfontein, as well as the Groot Swem from Robben Island to Big Bay. The Big 5 MTB Challenge has grown into one of the country’s premier one-day mountain bike events, and this year it boasts not only a stellar elite field by R25 000 for the winning man and woman, plus R20 000 for the King and Queen...

In Episode 2 of Season 2 the Diverge Podcast dives deepinto the 2025 Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen. The twelfth edition proved a dramatic one with punctures, crashes and illness all taking their toll. While there was plenty misfortune to go around, it did notaffect the victors at all as Imbuko ChemChamp and She Sends stormed to commanding wins in the UCI Men’s and Women’...

2025 is already 30 days young and so much has happened. Join the Diverge Podcast as Seamus Allardice looks back on how the mountain biking season started at the Momentum Medical Scheme Attakwas Extreme, presented by Biogen, on the 18th of January and at what happened at the first Ford Trailseeker of the year on the 25th of January. Plus there’s some chat about Alan Hatherly’s enthusiasm for the ye...

In Episode 7 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice talks you through the 2025 Absa Cape Epic route, after riding the route recce. As is usually the way of it, he didn’t complete every stage – because he came in unfit and exhausted – but if you’d like to avoid withdrawing from the race you should probably listen up and start training, hard. Without long passes, aside from the final climb...

In Episode 6 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice chats to EcoBound and To Hell and Back’s Zane Schmahl about the oldest mountain bike stage race in the country. Over beers in Gamkaskloof – as Die Hel is actually known – they spoke about the history of the event, the difficulties of staging a MTB race in such remote places, and the future of the 30-year-old event. Remember you can read...

In Episode 5 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice reflects on a stellar edition of the FNB Wines2Whales Shiraz race. Toyota Specialized dominated the final event in the Epic Series’ 2024 calendar, winning all three stages, despite Alex Miller crashing heavily on Day 2. With serious stage race season now completed we then pivot to the Garden Route Giro and the launch of Dryland Event Ma...

In Episode 4 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice looks back on the first two races in the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales series, reflecting on Candice Lill and Tyler Jacobs victory in the Chardonnay as well as the excitement of E-Bike racing in the Pinotage. The Pinotage ended with the Swiss team of Santina Malacarne and Lukas Dennda having to resort to Malacarne towing and pushing her partner...

In Episode 3 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice looks ahead at the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales with the insights of Tiffany Keep, Bianca Haw and Sarah Hill. Meanwhile in the Klein Karoo the Dryland Traverse got underway today, 31 October, and Nicola Freitas provides some on the ground reflections from the Prologue which takes in a run through the Cango Cave – a world heritage site. To read...

In Episode 2 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast Seamus Allardice looks back at the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, as well as the Cape Town Trail Marathon, and the Prince George Monumental 100 Miler. Then casts his gaze ahead at the 2024 FNB Wines2Whales and finds out from Zane Schmahl what the route conditions are like on the Road to Hell. To read more about the events and news covered in this episode cl...

Tune in for Episode 1 of the rebooted Diverge Podcast. The relaunched pod will be a shortcast/micro pod of between 10 and 20 minutes in length, focusing on the events and sports host, Seamus Allardice, covers on www.diverge.info . To read more about the events and news covered in this episode click through to the website:     Build-Up to the 2024 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Why To Hell and Back is t...