There is ongoing debate about whether Cadel Evans is a Hero. There are those who say his great courage on a bicycle and the massive commitment of his life to competing, and the courage it takes to narrowly lose le Tour many times to work out how to win it, make for a hero, without qualification. Others might accept him as a sporting hero, but want to keep sport at arms' length, and achievements in sport as fundamentally self-indulgent rather than sacrificial and beneficial.
I lean toward classing him a Hero. Our way of life is one of passivity, of storylessness, aimlessness, impulsiveness - of lacks made flesh. Anyone who can push desire far past its breaking point and continue opposes our nullity of choice with a choice of significance, and it does our hearts good to see it.
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