Finely-tuned triathlete Tom Fordyce and hopeless smoker Ben Dirs have made a living blogging 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 Olympics, in which "competitors, wearing boots, attempt to kick each other," We Could Be Heroes is a collection of brilliantly funny gonzo dispatches 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.
