The Tour de France is a race for the climbers, and if you’re not the creme de la creme you can forget it.

There are 198 riders in this year’s Tour and 190 of them don’t have a hope in hell of winning it.

And that includes most of the teams’ best riders. Little Thomas Voeckler, Team Europcar’s number one man and the current yellow jersey holder, is little more than a serial breakaway pest. He’ll finish where he usually finishes,  somewhere between 60th and 70th place.  Continue reading “The Tour of Pain” →

“Level at the break, the Matildas composed themselves and, helped by the substitute Lisa De Vanna, killed off the Equatoguineans“.

(News report on Australia’s 3-2 win over Equatorial Guinea)

“At other times I would tell myself that it was all a question of attitude, that there was really nothing wrong in being moved to distraction by girl-children.”

Humbert Humbert [Lolita], academic and paedophile

“I’d like to reclaim for women the right to appreciate the short-lived beauty of boys.”

Germaine Greer, academic and feminist