All week long at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic, South African riders Tristan Nortje and Marco Joubert (Imbuko ChemChamp A) have been threatening to run away with a stage. Success finally came on the penultimate Stage 6 at Lourensford Wine Estate as the local favourites raced to victory ahead of Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto [...]
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 [...]
Nino Schurter and Filippo Colombo (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) timed their attack to perfection late on the 2025 Absa Cape Epic’s ‘Queen Stage’ to surge away from the field and win Stage 5, extending their overall race lead to over a minute at the same. In the Aramex UCI Women’s Category, Annika Langvad and Sofia Gomez [...]
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 [...]
The UCI elite riders might term stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic a ‘romp’. It was a short, punchy day of cross-country racing over 80km with 1950m of elevation gain. Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto (Wilier-Vittoria) won the stage - again just one second ahead of Zebra Striped Yellow Jersey overall leaders Nino Schurter [...]
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 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 [...]
Stage 3 of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic was shortened from 90km to 78km due to a weather warning of extreme heat in the Western Cape’s Paarl region. Approximately 150m of climbing was also chopped off the stage. The changes in distance and elevation gain did little to change the fiery attitudes of the racing [...]
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 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 [...]
Belgian rider Wout Alleman and Czech partner Martin Stošek (BUFF MEGAMO 1) powered to a Stage 2 victory at the Absa Cape Epic near Paarl today. Starting at Meerendal Wine Estate and finishing at Fairview just outside of Paarl, the all-new team combination blitzed the 66km time-trial stage to finish 27 seconds ahead of Zebra [...]
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 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 [...]
