10-11am
While thousands of people were still lining up at the start of their 2014 PnP Argus Cycle Tour, already there had been a horrible accident 10m from the finish line. We saw it live on TV and I rewound it several times to try and figure out what happened. I took some photos from the TV stills. This one was moments before it happened….
It looked like the guy in the blue helmet suddenly pulled ahead and in doing so seriously ‘nudged’ the guy in the white helmet…
The result was horrible…as the guy went down in dramatic fashion and his race was over 10m before the finish. I hope the nudge was an accident.
While the guy who caused the accident with the blue helmet (front right in the photo below) pushed on over the finish line…
Not nice. That was what happened at the end of the race being closely televised because it was to capture the ladie’s elite race winner, who was Cherise Stander…
She also won last year. It’s always poignant seeing Cherise because, at her young age, she is the widow of Burry Stander who died in a cycling accident in January last year. They had been married for less than a year.
Mike & I walked to the intersection of Kommetjie Road and Ou Kaapse Weg to watch the first cyclists come round that corner before they head to Chapman’s Peak… there were these 4 cyclists in the elite men’s group who had broken away and were about 1 minute ahead of the leading peloton…
The peloton came….
And amongst the leading cyclists was the young man who went onto win the race…Capetonian (well from Franschoek), Nolan Hoffman…
It was the first time that he has won the Argus and he was thrilled…
Whether you are walking through life, running or cycling, run to win the race …the prize is eternal life.
1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
And so it’s a really quiet Sunday with books to read, cross stitch to do and lunch to cook.
God bless you loads!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂