{"id":18171,"date":"2013-02-21T01:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/olympic-champ-at-sausers-side-in-cape-epic\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T01:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:58:41","slug":"olympic-champ-at-sausers-side-in-cape-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympic-champ-at-sausers-side-in-cape-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic champ at Sauser\u2019s side in Cape Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/olympic-champ-at-sausers-side-in-cape-epic\/jaroslav-kulhavy-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2080\" alt=\"Olympic gold medallist Jaroslav Kulhavy will team up with defending champion Christoph Sauser at the 2013 Absa Cape Epic.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/843ae_Jaroslav-Kulhavy-LR.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic gold medallist Jaroslav Kulhavy will team up with defending champion Christoph Sauser at the 2013 Absa Cape Epic.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold medallist Jaroslav Kulhav\u00ff (28) of Czechoslovakia will team up with defending champion Christoph Sauser (36) of Switzerland in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which takes place from March 17 to 24, will once again take 1 200 riders through some of the Western Cape\u2019s most unspoilt territory.<\/p>\n<p>It kicks off with the prologue at Meerendal Wine Estate in Durbanville and end 698km later at its traditional Lourensford Wine Estate finish.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at 77kg and standing 1.87m tall, Kulhav\u00ff has been racing professionally since 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Besides winning last year\u2019s Summer Olympics in London, he placed third at the World Cup and in 2011 he was both world and European champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great at the moment, but I know the race will be very hard,\u201d said Kulhav\u00ff. \u201cI think Christoph and I\u2019ll be a good combination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve competed in several races together and we\u2019re both very strong. If we don\u2019t have any trouble, there is a big chance for us to win stages and finish on the podium overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said they would not train together. \u201cWe\u2019ll see each other at races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI train long hours at the moment and am riding about 200km per day. I don\u2019t follow a special diet, but I need to lose two kilos before the Cape Epic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reckons his advantage over other riders is his \u201cgood technical control\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medallist Jaroslav Kulhavy will team up with defending champion Christoph Sauser at the 2013 Absa Cape Epic. Olympic gold medallist Jaroslav Kulhav\u00ff (28) of Czechoslovakia will team up with defending champion Christoph Sauser (36) of Switzerland in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic. The event, which takes place from March 17 to 24, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}