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Ben: Do you ever worry you'll die without having left a mark? Tom: What about when you won that 3 a.m. break-dancing battle with the overweight Australian girl? Ben: It's not enough. I want to go down in history. Tom: You're called Ben Dirs. You will. Finely-tuned triathlete Tom Fordyce and hopeless smoker Ben Dirs have made a living blogging for the BBC about the triumphs and tribulations of sport at its highest level -- but they will never be World Champions themselves. Well, unless they can find some really pointless sporting challenges...From the gripping slow-motion drama of the World Sauna Championships to the Cotswold Olympicks, in which 'competitors, wearing boots, attempt to kick each other,' We Could Be Heroes is a collection of brilliantly funny gonzo despatches from the frontline of sport. If you can race Ben Fogle up a Yorkshire hillside carrying a sack of coal, or kick the shin out of Rory McGrath, you could be the Champion of the World -- and what's more, you'll have very, very sore shins, my son.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pan
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330517386
SKU
KLN0018333
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Fordyce
Tom Fordyce has been a BBC Sport Interactive journalist since 2000. He writes text commentaries on cricket and tennis, also writing features on various other sports and blogging from a number of different events. In 2009 he published his first book entitled We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships with Ben Dirs his 'ball by ball' co- journalist on the BBC website. Ben Dirs is a sports journalist on the BBC news website. He writes about and provides live blogging on a variety of sports including boxing, golf and rugby for people who cannot watch live television coverage, often for people who live abroad. He published his first book We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships with Tom Fordyce a co-journalist at the BBC.
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