From Mark McLauchlan and Iana Shkarupa (a fearless pole-dancing duo with his-and-her "Zoolander" hair) to Audrone Pavloviciene (an apparently deboned contortionist in a rag-doll costume) to Elena Lev (the hoop whiz), the virtuosity on display makes up for an awful lot of filler.
She is graced with as much talent, power and intensity as anyone on the Tour — even the Williams sisters — but she has yet to develop a Plan B when her strategy of glowering and attacking fail to intimidate fearless Poles with pet rats.
In the early 1970s small groups of fearless souls took to flying homespun gliders made of bamboo poles, sheets of plastic, baling wire and duct tape.
A self-described "half-pint," Skelton nevertheless became a fearless stunt pilot, famous for cutting through a ribbon tied between two poles with her plane's propeller — while flying upside down.
Hooper was inspired to attempt the feat by two fearless English explorers: Ranulph Fiennes, who reached both the North and South poles overland, and Vivian Fuchs, the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot.
Younger Poles such as Paweł Szymański, Paweł Mykietyn, and Agata Zubel carry on a tradition of sonic extravagance, of fearless lunges toward extremes, whether at the consonant or dissonant end of the spectrum.
Onscreen, she's fearless.
