South African hopes for success in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic received a significant boost this week when Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes were confirmed as partners for next month\u2019s race.<\/p>\n
In a show of selflessness, Beukes\u2019 team, Contego, agreed to release their star marathon racer to partner with Scott\u2019s Buys for the eight-day race.<\/p>\n
Buys is thrilled at the prospect of teaming up with Beukes.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy plan, since I joined Scott, was to always do this year\u2019s Cape Epic. But I was prepared to skip it if I couldn\u2019t find the ideal team-mate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough eight-day race against the world\u2019s best riders. You don\u2019t just pick anyone to partner with,\u201d said Buys.<\/p>\n
\u201cMatthys and I raced as team-mates at the Nedbank Sani2c three-day race a few years ago and it was apparent then that we have similar riding styles and strengths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe we\u2019ll be very well matched and I look forward to racing at the highest level with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buys has completed three Cape Epics, while this will be Beukes\u2019 first appearance.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of my previous Cape Epics were super serious. I raced in a back-up team always, so the pressure was low.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy best finish was 14th overall. I was also quite young. I\u2019ve matured physically and mentally since then. I\u2019m ready to give it my best shot.\u201d \u2013 supersport<\/a> South African hopes for success in the 2013 Absa Cape Epic received a significant boost this week when Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes were confirmed as partners for next month\u2019s race. In a show of selflessness, Beukes\u2019 team, Contego, agreed to release their star marathon racer to partner with Scott\u2019s Buys for the eight-day race. […]<\/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-18215","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\/18215","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=18215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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