Cannes has already provided a shining moment for British female talent: Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank won a standing ovation on day two, with its story of life on an Essex council estate for a 15-year-old girl.
Steve, who keeps us all thinking over at Think Tank, won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, for "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century," parts of which also appeared in our pages.
She must have been even more chuffed when Fish Tank won the Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May, although having given birth a few weeks earlier to a daughter, she shunned the red carpet, instead staying in Basildon with her boyfriend Brian - who she's probably eternally grateful to for winding her up that day on the train platform.
And, more recently, the "new" original Crocker Big Tank won the prestigious "Industry Award" at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering in 2012.
She then won a supporting role in the futuristic 1995 film Tank Girl, winning the role of "Jet Girl" after nine auditions.
The 2012 Tour de France winner should, you would think, have plenty in the tank to win Saturday's race and cash sum, but he will only win a certificate if Dowsett's record - set last year - is broken.
Does anyone think Costa has enough in the tank to win again today?
Origin: The actor Henry Winkler, alias the Fonz, was filmed in the TV series "Happy Days" wearing water skis and leather jacket and jumping over a shark tank to win a bet.
So much so, that Shark Tank has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program twice.
I even appeared on Shark Tank and "won" big - securing $2mm, the 2nd biggest deal anyone has seen on the show.
