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’s race Matt Beers, starts alongside Keegen Swenson and takes on Scott SRAM, ORBEA Leatt Speed Company, and 46 other UCI teams, which include the big all-South African hopes Tristan Nortje and Marco Joubert. For the women the only name which truly matters is Annika Langvad. The great Dane is back after a 6-year hiatus and will race alongside Sofia Gomez Villafane, will any of their rivals be able to take the challenge to the Toyota Specialized combination?
Later in the episode we pre-view the 47th Cape Town Cycle Tour. For the men the race is a blank slate from which one of nearly ten riders could win. While for the women it is shaping up to be a rematch of the Tiffany Keep/ S'annara Grove showdown, with Vera Looser, Hayley Preen and potentially Emma Pallant on hand to exploit any moments of lapsed concentration.
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