A break with a load of hot air

THERE'S a long way still to go in this year’s Race Across The World.

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This is only episode three. But observing this latest lot, racing from Sicily to Mongolia, I've already worked out what my own strategy will be when I compete in the race myself in 2027, along with my wife or my daughter, or maybe our dog. (That's assuming the producers don’t reject my application, of course. But I can’t see that happening. Especially not if I offer them option three.)

You see, a crucial factor each year, on the third leg, is that whoever’s last to the checkpoint - in this case, in the town of Halfeti in southeast Turkey - must leave the competition at once.