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You made the other riders look like gymkhana kids. Grey with exhaustion, desperately thin, he’d had to make two extra holes in his belt to keep his trousers up. Block, Billy’s sponsor, who’d flown out to watch the Nations’ Cup. “Go on,” she said with a giggle, ‘we’re all equal.

“He can hold his head up now. He lit a cigarette. There was an old grandmother there; she taught me about all the medicines she’d learnt from her great-grandmother. ”“I’ll ring you the moment I hear,” said Masters placatingly.