Paul Kimmage: 40 years on, and feeling every one of them, every day is a kick in the crotch in this game
‘The coldest day I’ve ever known on a bike' - Paul Kimmage during the Etoile de Besseges race in 1986.In 2005, I gave an interview to The Sunday Times, in the UK, and was accurately described as having “severed all ties” with the sport. The reporter, Paul Kimmage, asked why I’d chosen imposed exile, and I told him, “For the last five or six years, the most important thing in my life has been my family. It was nothing against tennis; tennis was my love and passion, but after 30-odd years of it, I needed a break.”That was all true, but not the whole truth.
