Sunday, August 13, 2006 AD
"Britain's real sports personality"
The Guardian continues its campaign for women's Tour de France winner Nicole Cooke to be recognised as Britain's top sportsperson of 2006 (see previous post). As the article concludes:
Meanwhile, The Onion chips in with its own thoughts on the "winner" of the men's Tour de France this year: Millions Of Americans Buying Floyd Landis-Inspired Bracelets.
In any year it would a crime that the towering achievements of this talented, intelligent and tenacious woman should be obscured by the refusal to take a cyclist as seriously as a tennis player or a track athlete. And given the current gloom surrounding British sport, it seems simply perverse not to recognise that, by any measure, Nicole Cooke is the best we have.The article opens with a reference to Mont Ventoux - notorious as the mountain on which the greatest British cyclist of all, Tom Simpson, died in 1967 - and its "legendary moonscape shimmering with menace". For photographs of this strange and desolate place, see this site devoted to "the giant of Provence".
Meanwhile, The Onion chips in with its own thoughts on the "winner" of the men's Tour de France this year: Millions Of Americans Buying Floyd Landis-Inspired Bracelets.
