LeMond Opens Up About Relationship with Laurent Fignon
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Greg LeMond is very respectful of Fignon in this interview. I think Greg LeMond respects all his opponents - which is brilliant that a man with his level of ability and success- is that humble. Many lesser talents are far more arrogant and condescending about their opponents. Greg LeMond is a great example as an athlete and as a person and is a credit to the sport
The greatest finish ever!!
Yes I remember it.
I watched the TDF for the first time in 1989, and it got me hooked on a sport I still enjoy 35 years later. It was an amazing race to watch, especially that exciting Time Trial victory by the underdog , Lemond.
Same 👍
Same. Changed my life.
Same here..Greg got me hooked. What a guy.
Yep. That was me. I saw the end time ride
Greg should have looked what was behind him
You mean he looks devilish? He is a great guy. Interviewer is responsible 😂
I thought I was alone😂
Especially when he leans forward you can see small horns peaking 😬 I think he is laughing also. He has great sense of humour and he is the only guy I admire. Being cancelled in those times was devastating for business. Even now is troubling but at least someone will speak up. That time he was alone!
Lance should sit there
@@Chickenbonetony He is on his way to Hell and not available.
“We Were Young and Carefree” by Laurent Fignon is a fantastic book. Highly recommend reading it.
100%
@simonacker.......Yes - an excellent read
@thesoultwins72 Thanks, I'll check it out.
I read that several years ago. It's a good read but if I remember correctly Fignon isn't too complimentary of LeMond and LeMond was/is a hero to me. And Fignon also implies that Hinault was a doper. He's careful enough to not actually say it outright but he implies it enough to leave no doubt that that's what he thought.
@@andyhodgson7692And also before he he died when asked if he had ever taken anything illicit, the answer was "oui"...
I have mad respect for Mr LeMond. I was a young cycling fan back when he won. I rode like crazy and was in fantastic shape. Yet compared to him, I was a SLUG. To ride that hard, that fast is an amazing feat. I'm sickened by the whole LA fiasco and glad that Mr Lemond was vindicated. He took a LOT of heat over that. He who laughs last!!
Lemond, one of the greatest.
Love all the Lemond content!
All these years that Tour win still stands as one of sports greatest finishes
Greg should check his background !
I was thinking the same myself. What's with the Devil's horns Greg?
THOSE DEVIL HORNS ON TOP LeMonds head. LMAO...
Exactly.
Fignon was on the French TV channel covering the Tour, after the final Stage in Paris, as he was dying from cancer.
He sat between the two other announcers, when one unthinkingly said:
(Paraphrased)
"What a great Tour! WE can't wait until next year, when the Tour gives us another..."
😮😢😢😢
Fignon collapsed, literally bending under the table, when the poor bloke who basically reminded us Laurent would not survive, realized how CRASS his comment was.
😢😢😢
With the amount spent nowadays by teams to maximize aerodynamics in TT, you have to think had Fignon cut his hair, he would probably have not lost the Tour.
nevermind the hair. he didn't even use aero bars like lemond did. it's widely agreed fignon makes up that 8 second difference if he'd just checked his ego and used aero bars.
I remember watching that 89 Tour on tv here in the US. It was on tape delay, and at the beginning of the TT coverage broadcast the announcers said it was the closest finish in Tour history, so I figured Greg had gotten very close to beating Fignon, but still had gotten only 2nd place overall, as I didn't think there was any way he'd made up all that time in such a short TT. Well I just about jumped through the ceiling as I watched those final few seconds tick away, and Fignon still hadn't crossed the finish line!
Greg LeMond will always be my cycling hero.
I was lucky enough to be able to follow Greg Lemond's career throughout the 80's, I'd already enjoyed seeing Hinault win the 82 tour and I think it was that same year that Lemond was on front cover of cycling monthly having won the Tour de L' Avenir , it was blindingly obvious he was a rising star and enormous force to be reckoned with . Loved his riding style , he always looked like he knew how to dig deep in the mountains when under pressure , often remaining seated as he climbed , a real class act on and off the bike , thanks Greg for the great spectacles you gave us all, superb.
Kind of weird for an American kid, but it was Fignon that got me into cycling and not lemond.
I was 18 and in my first year in the US Navy. Never seen a bike race before and out at sea on a WestPac and they sent films to the ship for entertainment. One of the films was a Wild World of Sports style coverage of the 1983 TDF. Watching Fignon stomps dude on the mountains was pretty cool!
RIP Laurant.
Greg is going a bit crazy with all these accusations towards EVERYONE. Like he was the only cyclist EVER to race clean. Saw it coming when him and his wife were constantly spinning wild conspiracy yarns even while he was winning TDF's.
Rather poor form to speak so ill of the dead when they cannot defend themselves.
He seems to keep it real. I don't feel that he is attacking him. He said he liked him. He was, after all, there. He is giving his account. Just take it in.
I didn’t get that at all. Not even in the slightest.
@@SeanP7195 You didn't get that?!?!?!?!
So when he accused Fignon of being a serial cheater who held on to motorbikes to get up mountains, when Laurant is dead, no other witnesses of that happening either in the peloton or outside of it, and the fact that Fignon was a 2 time TDF winner and almost always in the lead group with everyone watching them, but no cameras ever caught it? What was that?
Accusing a dead champion of being a fraud and a cheat is exactly what in your eyes? How exactly do you see that?
This isn't his only interview. He throws dudes under the bus left and right. He was the only clean rider EVER apparently.
I don't like it, and if we disagree on that I am ok with it. But he said what he said about Fignon. No denying that.
What a comeback after that hunting accident. Greg might have won at least two more tours if it didn't happened. We'll never know, but that's my feeling.
I recall that during that Tour, Fignon was reported as having a lot of trouble with infected saddle boils. I remember wondering at the end of the final time trial how much of an effect this might have had on him. He certainly didn't look comfortable during that ride.
Laurent Fignon was always the nemesis and LeMond the hero. I have grown to respect Fignon.
Forget the aerobars, if Fignon had just worn a standard aero HELMET he would've made up those 8 seconds.
Bullshit, if those bikes had a motor like that where is it on the market today… 30 years in advancement and it doesn’t exist.
He lost because his stupid ponytail was flapping around in the wind. Someone worked out it could have cost him over 10 seconds.
Do you still hold the best time circling Lake Tahoe?
French sportsmen do that sort of thing, ask Jean Van de Velde. 🤔
Only the riders and the doctors know who is /was clean. Very few likely until the most stringent tests now…every the earliest racers most likely took some meds to stay awake
Ahhh great memories - I still have the video tape and watch it at least once each spring
Greg was the best.
Demon Cyclist......
Fignon was too vain to use aero bars or wear an aero helmet. If he had done both he probably would have won.
Or if the motorcycle helped him over a few more climbs.
The odd thing is Fignon wore an aero helmet in the prologue but chose not to wear it for the final stage.
Fignon was an arrogant jerk across the board, which is why he’s not celebrated as a former TDF champ. Greg dug deep and delivered one of the greatest accomplishments in sports history. Fignon’s ego never recovered from Greg’s victory and he’s invisible today, despite being French.
If I could live any professional cyclists career, it would be Lemond.
Would have been fun to grow up cycling the Reno/Tahoe area. Must have been paradise back in the day.
Think the world of Lemond. I could not hold him higher, ever. I have always supported him unlike the millions of Americans who jumped on the Armstrong - yellow wristband train, excoriated Lemond and today lie through their teeth and claim same was not the case. Wish Lemond and his loved ones all the best, always. Always!!! That said, when the UCI allowed all this &^%$#@! aero %$#@ to invade the sport....... Numerous specialty bikes, tri-handlebar set up, etc., that is where the sport went south. Lemond's "win" in '89 was not. Fignon won the Tour...... Fignon was always class, too!
According to the creator of those TT bars he met you and convinced you to use those bars at perhaps the day before. Is that right? That was the difference
No, he used those bars earlier in the Tour too.
Fignon a cultural hero
G.R.E.G = G.O.A.T.
I've watched the 30-for-30 on LeMond and Fignon and there is something baffling about individuals like Fignon.
I remember soon after the '89 tour comments were being made that this was the break between the 'cavalier' era of cycling to the 'scientific' age of aerodynamics, nutrition, team tactics, etc. Whilst this is probably a simplification I think many professional sports, not just cycling, changed around this time. Nevertheless, thanks for the memories, Greg and Laurent.
Sorry folks help an ole lad out here,I’m new to roadman can someone please tell me who the chap hosting is? I know who Greg is,thanks
Just a lad with a microphone who loves cycling :)
@@roadmanpodcastclips former pro ? Name ?
Will never forget that '89 finish , :08 wow! Not sure what that is behind Lemond's head but it looks like devil horns
Could you have at least had Greg move to the right or left or do the same with the camera? Those “horns” are very distracting. 🤦♂️
he's playing to the 'american devil' persona.
They would have fit Armstrong much better
That was the first Tour de France I watched on tv when Eurosport in Europe relayed it to the UK , great days in cycling
I still have this TT recorded on a VHS tape. It’s useless but I’ll never throw it away
I was there that day. As an American it was fantastic. For the French, not so much.
Fignon rode the Tour with real Panache. I wish he had won the 89.
Fignon came across as an arrogant tool.....I still think he is.
he wasnt at all, and died from cancer over a decade ago
The GOAT
Le Monde is a nice guy, he doesn't want to say that Fignon was an a.hole.
Laurent dropping off his bike, into the fetal position, after realizing he lost, was one of the most beautiful moments, in sports history, for me.
The devil horns behind Greg's head 😂 no way he never participated in the rocket fuel
I believe the word is "mercurial".
Living through the Armstrong/Bush years was wretched, but at least I got to scream loud enough to make my own ears pop for this American Champion.
Imagine beating a known doper, but then claiming doper was the reason he could no longer keep up.
Different dope
Oh please? Fignon was doped the gills and Greg beat him clean??? Not! Greg is full of shit
No noise of Lemond cheating other than from uninformed keyboard warriors like yourself.
The Lemond hate (presumably from Armstrong fanboys) is nauseating
They were on amphetamines. It was not actually considered doping. Probably ended up killing both Anquetil and Fignon prematurely, though.
@@paulevans6403 and Tom Simpson too. But it was so unscientific that the benefits were marginal at best and (hugely talented ... say, the 93 VO2 types) clean athletes could easily have beaten them ...
Amphetamine usage and the EPO epidemic that followed were not the same. No-one could compete with EPO doped athletes.
Guimard and Fignon state in Fignon's biography that Lemond used illegal aero bars in the final ITT, losing him the TdF he so richly deserved. Lemond cheated, and in doing so destroyed Fignon and brought about his decline and premature death.
uci stated it was legal.
He used them in all the ITTs in that year tour. So, if they were illegal, why didn't UCI or race officials say anything before the final ITT?
@@huwprice881 btw lemond and fignon were friends up until he died.
Not a fan.
Thumbs up, talented!