WSJ.com – The Daily Fix explains that Mark Welch of the Sydney Morning Herald has ridden Huez, the route through the Alps that Lance Armstrong is riding in the Tour de France, and “lived to tell about it — barely.” Here’s what he had to say about it:
‘By the time I had reached the second of 21 hairpins, I felt as if Saverio Rocca was sitting on my chest and Anthony Rocca was on the handlebars.’
What other American newspaper would cite an Australian journalist’s reference to two Aussie-rules footballers while describing a bicycle race?