It’s a very inspirational story (and frankly, quite loony and unhinged), but we’ve found one of the great sporting tales of the modern era, and it comes from our shores. You won’t find this in the tabloid litter lining; you won’t find our youths queueing up to petition for it. You won’t read it in the broadsheets, or see some fat rapper shouting about it – so we’ve got something of a scoop.
In True Stories, we interviewed Nicholas Leong, a Singaporean professional photographer (and cycling nut) with a mission — dude wants to start the world’s first all-African pro cycling team! So he packed up and went to Kenya.
Think about it (while you’re sitting in your office, sipping latte, planning a debauched weekend at Zouk or a hearty barbecue at the beach) and tell us it’s not nuts.
Of course it is! But that’s why we love it, and champion it, and want it to be a spectacular, freewheeling, trend-buckling, supersonic success. We should all dare to dream; read his story.
Speaking of dreams — or at least, bedroom fantasies — we managed to get the first bikini shoot of MTV’s new VJ Taya. We also got new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko to pole dance for us. We convinced a distributor to give a car to the GND winner. We test drove the hot new Audi R8, and we also got previous GND winner Eileen Tan to get her kit off. Again.
Bands and singers also dream big, but sometimes their egos get in the way, and they crash like rogue traders. Find out why in our feature Worst Second Albums Ever. Two words: Stone Roses.
But hey, at least they had one genius first album.

David Fuhrmann-Lim
Senior editor