{"id":202505,"date":"2019-04-03T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=202505\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:01:18","slug":"video-reaching-the-top-at-the-cape-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/video-reaching-the-top-at-the-cape-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video] Reaching the Top at the Cape Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving their XC comfort zone and aiming high at the world&#8217;s toughest MTB stage race, SCOTT-SRAM&#8217;s Nino Schurter and Lars Forster dominated the 2019 Cape Epic. Learn more about how the week was seen by the protagonists themselves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5rq89nMdYM\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stellenbosch, South Africa. 10 days ago, Nino Schurter and Lars Forster wrote history winning the legendary Cape Epic in South Africa. After eight days full of drama, eating dust and suffering endless pain on South Africa\u2019s wild Western Cape trails, the World and the European Champion finally succeeded at the \u201cTour de France of Mountain Biking.\u201d In SCOTT-SRAM\u2019s recap edit, riders and the crew behind the success talk through how the race was really won, what challenges the entire team had to overcome and what effort had to be made to end this adventure in glory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-234.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-234-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-234-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-202507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-77.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-77.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-77-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SCOTT-Sram_2019_Cape_Epic_Stage7_Image-by-GustavKlotz_1600-77-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving their XC comfort zone and aiming high at the world&#8217;s toughest MTB stage race, SCOTT-SRAM&#8217;s Nino Schurter and Lars Forster dominated the 2019 Cape Epic. 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After eight days full of drama, eating dust and suffering endless pain on South Africa\u2019s wild Western Cape trails, the World and the European Champion finally succeeded at the \u201cTour de France of Mountain Biking.\u201d In SCOTT-SRAM\u2019s recap edit, riders and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170425,"featured_media":202507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3678],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.3 (Yoast SEO v19.7.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Video] Reaching the Top at the Cape Epic | MTB-MAG.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/video-reaching-the-top-at-the-cape-epic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Video] Reaching the Top at the Cape Epic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leaving their XC comfort zone and aiming high at the world&#8217;s toughest MTB stage race, SCOTT-SRAM&#8217;s Nino Schurter and Lars Forster dominated the 2019 Cape Epic. 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