Jago and Ronel Liss - the husband and wife cycling pair who were branded cheats and disqualified from the Pick 'n Pay Cape Argus Cycle Tour - on Saturday again failed to impress the local cycling fraternity.
This was the Lisses' first cycle race since the event and fellow cyclists saw it as their chance to prove that they were every bit as good as they claimed.
A furore erupted at the cycle tour, held in March, when Ronel Liss claimed to have won the women's race ahead of the woman already declared winner, Anriette Schoeman, by 15 seconds, and claimed the R15 000 women's prize.
And her husband, Jago, caused a similar stink by clinching victory in the "A" group by a massive 18-minute margin.
But organisers smelt a rat and, after an extensive investigation and interviews with the pair, disqualified them both. Cycle tour management found that Ronel Liss had not registered on the timing mat on Ou Kaapse Weg, and was not seen in any video footage of the race and said her husband had "not completed the entire route".
Saturday's race, starting at Club Mykonos on the West Coast, was the Lisses' first appearance since and their names were on all but a few of the top cyclists' lips.
Judging by the competition, cyclists said Ronel Liss should have won the women's race with ease. Alas, she crossed the line in third place, a full nine minutes behind a woman who came 26th in the cycle tour's women's race.
And her husband, trailed every metre of the route by an official race organiser's vehicle, crossed the line stone last in his group, the Pinarello League pack.
Immediately after the race, Sunday Argus attempted to speak to Ronel Liss. But her husband's brother, a thin, pale man dressed in a light pink outfit, took exception to this and barred access to within 50 metres of her by partially blocking off the main Langebaan-Saldanha road, flapping his arms wildly. Jago Liss's father also joined the family blockade, later, somewhat curiously also photographing this reporter.