He has a way with words, that Mr Key, his own particular way. I have no idea what is meant by an explorator, nor why it should be named after that famous cyclist, Sir Edmund "Spokes" Hillary. Whether I shall ever find out is in doubt, although Mr Key says "there's still potentially over time a possibility," which is about as clear as he can be. After all, "we are just building the cycleway a bit like a patch work quilt;" you see, "Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is the New Zealand cycleway going to be."
It is a journey you will understand, through the English language and Mr Key's various fantastic visions; a journey going forward, and downward. Potentially over time there is a possibility it will end like this:
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Explorator is a perfectly cromulent word. Like explorer, but 65% more pretentious.
I presume it's going to be nominatified after Hillary on the reasonabilitude that the dodecamense of his neonatalisation has a not inconsiderable terminodigital similitude to the present one.
Word Verification: nessent, a rising furriner.
Luckily for Mr. ke, there are no Romans left to take umbrage at his implication that building a sophicated Empire that lasted some five centuries is an achievement roughly equal with building a few kilometres of cycleway out of crushed lime.
The race in and of itself is not such a stupid idea. People already flock to the South Island for cycle touring and a race could presumably be run on existing roads in some very pretty parts of the country.
I think we can agree that naming it after Hillary would have been a dumb, obvious move. Harry "Mile Eater" Watson, first NZer to ride the Tour de France and multiple record-holder even now, would be a worthy cycling-related candidate. The Tour de Watson, sadly, is not such an easy marketing proposition.
OTOH, if it was the Romans building the cycleway, it wouldn't take much longer than a day and it would be straight as a bullet, so the race itself couldn't be expected to last too long.
Samuel - we already get international representation at New Zealand's main tours, the Tour of Southland and the Trust House Cycle Classic.
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