Paarl — Both the men’s and women’s champions at the Absa Cape Epic allowed their rivals to take the wins in the final stage at Val de Vie in Paarl, but there was no stealing the glory from men’s champions Nino Schurter and Matthias Stirnemann and women’s winners Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag. In the men’s race the Scott-Sram MTB Racing team of Schurter and Stirnemann dominated the final stage but then swung off to allow their Scott-Sram Young Guns team of Michiel van der Heijden and Andri Frischknecht to take the grand finale victory, with the Trek-Selle San Marco team of Damiano Ferraro and Fabian Rabensteiner second. Conceding the stage win was a sweet thank-you from Schurter and Stirnemann for all the help from their back-up team, which allowed the two Scott-Sram teams to dominate the final few stages. That dominance meant the Racing Team went into the final stage with a virtually insurmountable seven-minute gap over second-placed Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Investe...
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