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Motocross: The Official King Of The Whip Highlights Video Is LIVE.

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The Official King Of The Whip Highlights Video Is LIVE

Julien Vanstippen © Eric Palmer

King of the Whip – Best Whip Contest, presented by Pringles in association with Monster Energy, Yamaha, Garmin, Motul and Estrella Cerveza, highlghts video is live. 

Watch the top Motocross and Freestyle Motocross athletes battling it out for a share of the prize purse to see who’ll be crowned King of the Whip.

Riders were judged on style, amplitude and variation. 

The event took place on 19 November at Montecasino, and the venue was sold out for the night. 

There was R100k in prizes and Belgium’s Julien Vanstippen took the lion’s share of the victories. 

Sold out venue © Eric Palmer

Here are the links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lwmag/videos/666041695103377

YouTube: https://youtu.be/87Tzq7Ye4JA

LW Mag: https://lwmag.co.za/king-of-the-whip-2022-official-highlight-video

Link to download the trailer:

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/d30eeca84ecad7cc9b91345ab685989e20221124143736/281a62

Julien Vanstippen. Photographer: © Eric Palmer

Jesse Wright © Eric Palmer

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The Geological Miracle of the Witwatersrand

The very existence of Johannesburg is a geological fluke. Unlike most major global cities, Johannesburg was not built near a river, a coast, or a natural harbor. It sits 1,753 meters above sea level on a rocky ridge called the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters). This ridge is the edge of the world’s largest known gold deposit, formed over 2 billion years ago when an ancient inland sea began to evaporate, leaving behind layers of gold-bearing conglomerate.

When George Harrison, an Australian prospector, stumbled upon an outcrop of gold on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, he triggered a “gold rush” that changed the course of African history. Within a decade, a dusty collection of tents and wagons transformed into a permanent city of brick and mortar. The “Main Reef” proved so vast that it eventually produced nearly 40% of all the gold ever mined in human history. This geological wealth dictated the city’s layout: the mining belt runs east-to-west across the city’s center, creating a physical divide between the wealthy northern suburbs and the industrial, working-class south. Today, while most mines within the city limits have closed due to the extreme depth and cost of extraction (some mines reached over 3.9 kilometers underground), the physical legacy remains in the form of “mine dumps”—massive yellow-white hills of crushed rock and sand that define the Joburg skyline.