I don't know anything about Barry Bonds, so I can only go on what was actually said in the article, but it wouldn't surprise me one little bit. In this country, there is a cricketer named Shane Warne (I could rattle off plenty of other names, he just springs to mind), who has done just about everything possible to bring his sport into disrepute, yet the "great unwashed" still think he's wonderful.

While this country has yet to produce a TdF winner, there are plenty of sportspeople out here who are more worthy of being rolemodels and receiving adulation. They just don't get the hype that Warne does. I think Joe Stephens deserves a lot of credit for this article.