It seems Harry Watson, forgotten New Zealand sports champ, is having his time in the sun.
There's been a non-fiction book about the first Kiwi in the Tour de France - Harry Watson: The Mile Eater by Jonathan Kennett, Bronwen Wall and Ian Gray.
More recently, The Invisible Mile, a novel by David Coventry about Harry's Australasian team being the first English-speaking team to race the tour in 1928 was nominated in this year's Ockham Book Awards.
![A scene from the Tour De France documentary, Le Ride.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/2COKBYZUITRVQHJA3X2HBHG244.jpg?auth=7a5745da4dcfc38b94c9cd45b80181efc093f3231e0e4efda6865b017e2fc163&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)
But the most strenuous efforts, in terms of calories burned anyway, to ensure Watson's story won't be forgotten is Le Ride, the self-propelled doco by Phil Keoghan, the former NZ youth television presenter now better known for US reality tv show The Amazing Race, a programme which makes a sprint event out of tourism.