Oudtshoorn Cycing Festival: provincial selections have young cyclists riding high
Three high school road cyclists from Khayelitsha and Manenberg on the Cape Flats number among the 50 high school cyclists selected from schools throughout the Western Cape to participate in the Oudtshoorn Inter District Youth Cycling Festival from June 25 to 28. The Western Province squad will be selected from this group and announced on June 28. Two of the cyclists, Sisipho Willy, 15, and Vuyolwethu Nkomo, 17, are from Matthew Goniwe Memorial High in Khayelitsha, and Chadwin Andrews, 18, is from Phoenix High in Manenberg. The three competed in Oudtshoorn for the first time in 2017 and were selected to represent Western Province at the nationals in 2017. They plan to be selected again this year. The three cyclists are part of the 15-strong elite squad in the Sports Trust Cycling Development Programme, which Nedbank has funded since the start in 2005. The programme has taken the sport of cycling into 12 under-resourced high schools and their communities in the Western Cape, notably t...
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