We were juniors together. They often put him in with the seniors, but some days he raced in his age category, with us. In one short criterium he lapped the rest of the field .... twice. I remember being impressed when he blew by the first time. When he came around for the second time, I was devastated. It’s like he was a different species. That was 1980 and he was winning races against Cat 1 seniors.
@@jimbutler1189 It took me a long time to get over him beating me because I was top in socal states 79,80 but when he started winning cat I,II , I became proud of him, I wasn't alone. he beat everybody.
Make no mistake about it, LeMond was using all the best PEDs during the 80s. He beat you because he knew someone who worked at the local pharmacy is all.
I´m from Germany, 33 and obviously I´ve never seen him race during his professional career. But for some reason he´s my idol when it comes to cycling LOL
@Richard Dixon He's not gay but your boyfriend certainly is, bud. If you didn't have an "older" name like Richard (if that is your actual name, of course?), I'd simply write your inane comments off as those of an annoying 8 y/o but what makes someone write such consistently stupid $hit, may I enquire?!
I moved to Reno around 94 and went into a bike shop knowing my size and got something nice used for $200. I wondered at the time why Lemond was plastered all over their walls.
Greg Lemond sparked my road cycling interest which you can consider probably the Golden years of cycling during the 80s, for me Greg LeMond is the epitome of the greatest time of cycling ever
For a special occasion, my wife bought me a Lemond Chambery. I'm 72 now and I still participate in the Pacific Northwest STP, a two-day event from Seattle to Portland. What is the weapon of my choice? You guessed it, my Lemond. Why, it reminds me of who put America on the map when it comes to representing the best.
Me too. My first experience watching the Tour was in 85 when I was in England. I saw him being told to slow down so Hinault could win and I felt wronged. Like it was ME. Then I got heavy into it. Then I saw how strong he was in 86 and I went nuts lol. I immediately wanted to be like him.
In 1989 I saw Greg close up as he walked past me to the time trial start house at The Tour de Trump in Richmond Va. He didn't look well and seemed a bit gray. That was in May. By late June I saw him again at the US Pro Cycling championships in Philadelphia as he raced by seemingly talking strategy with Alexi Grewal. In America Greg raced for the Coors team. This time he was tan and looked extremely healthy. That's when I knew he had a genuine shot at that years Tour. By the way, if memory serves me right I think he finished 10th at the 89 US pro championship.
greg's win over fignon was the most amazing Ive ever seen. he dominated and for my money he did when he wasnt winning in 87-88 after the gunshot. he was a long run champion. he was just in another league. I loved riding, was a fast rider and used to easily passing most guys, but then I had a stroke in the off season that wrecked my whole right side and literally overnight I was like an old man at the back of every pack and cycling was ruined for me.
"Had I been able to race in 87 and 88 -I would have dominated the sport" . Greg -give yourself a break -will ya. You made cycling HISTORY as no one else had ever done before .
'85 TDF was also his for the taking but he gave in to his loyalty to his mentor, Hinault (who had only just lured him to the team from Renault that year) & the lies of the La Vie Claire team's DS, Koechli (who, years before the advent of race radio, lied to Greg about how far behind Hinault really was upon Luz-Ardiden & instructed Greg to wait for him, when Hinault was more than 3 minutes behind) & who really knows what would have happened from '91 onward (when Greg said that he felt the very best he ever had before a Tour) had EPO not arrived within the peloton as it did? But as Fignon used to say, suddenly mules became thoroughbred horses from one season to the next, such was the effect of EPO (& growth hormone, cortisone, etc) upon the peloton.
Greatest cyclist ever. I believe two things went against Greg towards the end of his cycling career, the effects of his injury came back that began robbing him of his health and the peloton resorting to using performance enhancing drugs.
It’s so strange how his story is very similar to Armstrong. The American cyclist who made a remarkable comeback from adversity. One is good and the other is evil..
I can relate to wanting to quit after the accidental shooting. I am not the same after getting shingles in my eye and all the problems I had from the anti-viral medications they had me on for months that messed up my kidneys and liver. It's taken two years to get almost back to where I was before all that stuff happened. But it doesn't seem that I'm ever going to completely get there.
John Agresti - Yes. I’ve learned to rest more. When I got the shingles I had a huge amount of stress in my life in like every area. Since then things have gotten better and I’ve learned some better ways of coping. The bike helps with that, I just have to not go overboard like you suggest.
As a 15-16 yr old he beat every 18-34 cat one rider. I watched he tear the legs off any rider who tried to race him. In the Butterfly classic in Pacific Grove he finished 2 1/2 laps ahead of 2nd place. He was just 16 years old
Behind. Greg is a painting/picture of a newly plowed field...odd. but maybe not so...it represents raw potential. Possibility.. belief in growth and youself
Wait! It's Greg Lemond here. THE most talented rider of his generation, fantastic palmares, and a great guy. If it wasn't for Lemond, you'd all be following soccer or tennis. I don't get the bitterness and criticism. He spoke French well, stood up for his fellow rider, and blazed a rainbow striped trail for US (and North American) Cycling. Results in MSR, Paris Roubaix, and Tour of Flanders. Not to mention WRR champion a couple of times. Doping? Really? That's your beef with Greg Lemond? C'mon!
Yep, between the '85 Tour that was his for the taking, if not for loyalty to "Le Blaireau", who had only just brought him to La Vie Claire that year, then the lost '87 & '88 Tours & finally, the arrival of EPO throughout the peloton & the effects of lead poisoning (from the shooting in early '87) from '91 onward...thank God he was still able to win 3 Tours & 2 Worlds titles, though...
As a cyclist since the late sixties, ( my grandfather was a velodrome bike racer ) I absolutely loved watching Greg LeMond’s career and i am a huge fan of him. However I have to say I also still admire Lance Armstrong till this day, I understand he cheated, ( along with the rest of his competitors ) but Lance like Greg was still the best of his era and raised more money for cancer research than just about anyone else ever did. I’m not condoning what he did, but if everyone was clean in Lances era he still would’ve won a couple of Tour’s. You don’t have to pick between them, you can like them both!
He's riding like dog sh#t and suddenly a switch goes off and he wins the Tour de France. What a story. If I didn't know any better I would be suspicious in a sport that has long had a history of doping going back to the very first Tour with riders allegedly using alcohol to dull the pain to the years of alleged amphetamine abuse in the 40's 50's and 60's and blood doping, steriod use, EPO of the 70's, 80's, and 90's and beyond. But as far as I know he never failed a drug test and he has certainly been very vocal against performance enhancing drugs. So, it's an amazing story! Good for Lemond!
i have two team bikes for sale, both produced in the first week of march 83, both nearly complete original one is size 54, second 57 - both with original parrts - these bikes are a holy grail and massive rare
Also ironic that Lemond bikes was basically ruined after being bought by Trek, the brand that Lance helped make the huge conglomerate that it is today. Cheers
Actually the LeMond bikes pre-Trek were not very good. Trek at least knows how to make bikes (well, they used to, now they just call Giant?) but they killed the marketing for Greg's brand at BigTex' request.
@@danjo1967 Sorry Danny, but it was only the Armstrong lovers that ever reacted to leMond that way. Do you remember when leMond correctly accused Armstrong of cheating?
I think we're all lucky that we can enjoy such a great and heroic sporting event and not just one. Yeah there's the doping scandals, but why don't they turn their attention to the other sports that use it?, i don't care if some of the best doped, i still like them -- the races were extremely!, tough back then, now there's less of an excuse with the better equipment and science. I'm not a cycling nut, but i am a fan, and I feel very fortunate to have gone to the Tour 100 in 2013, i saw two stages in Brittany with my dad, who was one of Irelands best amateur riders and was in the papers as a teen, and raced on the same team as Sean Kelly and also beat him many times, and knew Shay Elliot and named me after his brother...he turned down the Olympic team because of the doping involved.
A very simplistic, fact shy documentary, a real shame. Ie why was he so quick? VO2 max of 93! (Armstrong 78, thus the drug accusation), average fit club cyclist 45-50. The use of Tri bars etc....
@@stevenmeyer9674 PED cannot affect VO2, the accusation was for Lance not Greg, thus his argument with Lance, ie you cannot climb that fast with a VO2 of 78. Read carefully before making assumptions.
His name's Pat Blades & Greg being the wonderful human that he is, apparently they were always all good afterward, although it really messed with Pat badly & as he wasn't an experienced hunter, he probably shown;t have been out turkey hunting with them that day anyway...
Interesting “documentary”. Yes Greg was great but this “documentary” doesn’t really document his 1989 comeback accurately. He was riding the 1989 Tour de Trump against a mediocre peloton (no real big named European racers came over here for that stage race) and in the “mountains” of the east coast he was getting dropped by the peloton. He should have been swept up by the sag wagon but the race organizers didn’t want to embarrass him, which was the right call. This was in April of 1989. What this “documentary” doesn’t mention is that he was diagnosed with an “iron deficiency” after the Tour de Trump and he was given some type of injections supposedly iron supplements. Then we get to June of 1989 and he’s racing the Giro ‘d Italia and he starts to improve. He goes on to win the last time trial against the competition of the European peloton. Then we get to the Tour de France in July and he wins it. It was no doubt a great accomplishment. One of the greatest moments in sport. But how does one go from getting smoked in April of 1989 against mediocre competition in an American stage race to winning the Tour de France 4 months later? I don’t think an iron deficiency could cause that dramatic of a difference in performance. EPO, blood doping or some other type of doping technique is more plausible explanation. Additionally, remember LeMond was the first to time trial with aero bars which is a huge advantage. Had Fignon used them, he would have won the Tour. LeMond’s story is a great one, for sure, but we have to remember the whole story.
LeMond was on the juice at certain points in his career. Cycling insiders know this. Even Lance Armstrong knows this. That's why LeMond isn't trusted by anyone even now after he's been "vindicated". Because he chose to throw stones while living in his own glass house. As big a competitor and bully as Armstrong was, he never ratted anyone out the way LeMond did.
"I don’t think an iron deficiency could cause that dramatic of a difference in performance." OK, but you're not Greg LeMond, (or a doctor I assume) the guy who wiped the floor with senior riders as a junior. Was that from doping?
"LeMond was on the juice at certain points in his career. Cycling insiders know this. " Care to name any of these insiders who would put their name on such a claim?
@@larryt.atcycleitalia5786 Seniors in the US we’re not very good. That was in the seventies. Nobody in the entire US was any where near as good as European riders. Even amateur European riders. What matters is going from sag wagon in a US race to TdF winner in an 8 week period. That is not natural for anyone.
just to stop dreamers of this cheat. Fignon had a egg behind the balls. he was sitting sideways because of that egg. he woulda never lost that TT. just to remind you, Fignon was amongst the best TT riders. a real specialist. with no special device. just a man, a bike and 2 disc wheels. if you don't know what an egg at this place does... believe me it kills like a dog to the point you think you'll not be able to have kids after the race.
And there is video of him riding around with aero bars on his bike before the time trial. His weakness for winning with panache sans aero bars and helmet was the big factor. He immediately lost one mph of speed before he started. The saddle sore did not help.
So…….I just turned 43. Your not that old. Get to work. My dad was working 60-70 hours a week when He was 55 as a highly skilled mechanic/automotive electric expert.
Cycling fanatic from Ireland here. I always respected Greg as a great cyclist and a super human being. He was a phenomenal rider and when you look at the quality of his opposition, Hinault/Fignon/Moser/Kelly/Roche/Delgado/Millar : his record is second to none. I hated him when he beat Sean Kelly at Chambery in 1989 : I'm delighted that truth has come out. LeMond is a man of courage and principle.
@Willie Duggan........Hi Willie - I am English and was a spectator at the 1989 Cycling World Championships as I had gone to live with my French girlfriend in Chambery 6 months earlier. [I also managed to see several key mountain stages of arguably the best ever TDF when Lemond beat Fignon]. The Sunday of the Worlds elite men's race started off very cloudy and soon disintegrated into an absolutely torrential thunderstorm - unlike the previous day when the Junior's race was run off in a virtual heat-wave! [all of the British riders abandoned due to the heat!] I actually rode the course and if you watch videos of the race, it simply doesn't do it justice as to just how hard and technically demanding it was! There were 21 laps of an extremely testing Chambery course, including a brutal 'corkscrew'-like climb with a very twisty and perilous descent. In fact, I clearly remember riders falling like nine-pins as the weather conditions worsened - including many of the main contenders. [there was a story going round after the race that Lemond himself had come off and rode the last 2 laps with a buckled front wheel to win!] Another memorable event for me was whilst riding the circuit a few days before the road races began - the then pre-eminent PDM squad came cruising past including the likes of Alcala, Breukink, Theunisse, Rooks, Early - and of course, 'King Kelly'. [who was having an really excellent season]. But for me, Lemond's gritty performance that day - was simply staggering! If you consider that he won that years' TDF with virtually no team [his ADR squad was probably the weakest in pro-cycling] and then took the World's when everyone in the sport had written him off - it's a stunning testament to the man's sheer will-power. I am not that keen of anything 'American' but like you, I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for Lemond - both as a cyclist and as a man.
There would be no Lance without Greg. Greg tells the story of Bernard Tapie whisking him around 007 style to meet him on Slaying the Badger. That was the deal that brought the kingpin level money into cycling. Without Tapie's money, the doping in cycling would've stayed low-key. Tapie's money made doping become professional. Greg may not see it that way, but he was part of the influx of money that would bring in the hard doping that led to Lance's rise and fall. So he's no angel, but he's not the Walter White of cycling either.
Lance was just playing the Europeans’ game. What was really awful about Armstrong was how he treated people along the way. I would guess if he hadn’t been such a horrible human being, he wouldn’t have made so many enemies and been busted. He should have stopped while he was ahead. When he came back to race again, he pissed a lot of people off.
Stopped riding the bike in 1979. Ten years later, a few weeks after watching the final TT of the 89 tour I was driving to Cannock in Staffordshire to pick up a Rourke road bike and have been riding ever since, thanks Greg...
Watched Greg from his first arrival in the TDF and knew he had the stuff to win that race, and what a fabulous humble fella he was and is. Mr Armstrong should have taken a leaf out of Greg's book but instead he defined the word "asshole" , hurting many people including Greg. Greg remains for me one of the true greats in cycling from that era and if not for that shooting accident he would have had his 5 tour wins, because there was nobody with his class at that time. VIVE LE GREG .
33 mph average for 15 miles . . . with wind resistance increasing exponentially the higher the speed. Eight seconds for the win, wiping out a 50 second lead . . . my best average was 22 mph on the flats for 50 miles, at age 50, but I wasn't pushing myself very hard. I am seven years older than LeMond, and biked in my teens on Schwinn, and later any frame I could cobble together, once using a long steel pipe for a seat post (I am 6'6"). I would just put the chain on the smallest rear cog and go . . . 1999 I was hit by a car, broke three vertebra, ribs, collar, wrist . . . it took me two years to recover. Enjoyed three years of strong riding, and then at age 50 sidelined by Guillain-Barre' Syndrome. At 67, I am on the bike again, restarting from less than zero.
The "dope" prior to 1990 simply did not work for sustained aerobic power output. Your ATP synthesis is dictated by O2 delivery. It is chemistry/stoichiometry. I will say it again. "Old dope" was worthless for a GC rider. For a GC rider, sustained aerobic threshold power output is ALL that matters. VO2 Max, efficiency, and watts/kg. None of the "old dope" (test, stimulants, etc) would help prior to EPO. None of it would dramatically boost your O2 delivery. So if you want to know who was doping in this era. Look at their speed before 1990 and after 1990. Simple as that. Greg's climbing pace up all the major Tour climbs...it was the SAME in 84,85,86,89,90. THE SAME SPEED. Dig up the UCI splits. If Greg was a doper..then why did his speed stay the same? Have anyone of you actually ever ridden? Have you taken EPO. You have no clue. It is to the aerobic athlete what AAS is to the power athlete. Greg's Tour results...he had the motor to win from his very first Tour - 3rd, 2nd, 1st...then he GOT SHOT....missed two years...then 1st, 1st, 7th, retired. The first generally agreed upon EPO year was 1991...the year he finished 7th, while going the same speed he always had before. Suddenly in 1 year everyone else started training better? That is a joke. Do the math. Then you have a rider like Mig. His first Tour was 1985, a year after Greg. Here are HIS results. DNF DNF 97th 47th 17th 10th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 11th. The year he finished 10th? 1990. The year he first won? 1991. AGAIN< DO THE MATH. Greg went the same speed...the dopers got faster. Greg got dropped, and then retired. You want to know who doped...LOOK AT THE STOPWATCH. Calculate the power. It is basic bio-engineering / bio-mechanics.
Great post and plenty of science. However Mig had samples taken and they show not one trace of EPO. Don't use stats such as finishes. If you are not getting on the podium (and he wasn't) and you are heavy you shouldn't kill yourself. He bided his time and got batter with age and experience. He had great natural stats - probably as good if not better than any of his competitors. Also he would have had to get it from somewhere and there and there is no way he could simply turn up somewhere unannounced and too many people would have been in on it. It maybe true that some of his support team weren't clean.
What are you talking about? Tests for EPO were not established till years after Mig retired. The first doping test in cycling was used in the 2001 La Flèche Wallonne. How do you explain how he went from an also ran in 86-90...to suddenly being at the front at the same time EPO came to the forefront. He was EPOd up to the max.
shooter7a Indurain wasn’t clean yes, I’d say he doped from 92-96, but 89-91 I don’t think he did blood doped. I have the report of Not Normal by Vayer and from 90-91 he had the more normal climbing power output, standardized 70 kg of 405 watts, similar to Lemond. Made sense, Indurain has vo2 max of 88 ml/kg/min and could have been has high as 90 if his racing weight is as low as 78 kg
@@akl192 NONSENSE. YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. I know you want to believe it is possible. But it is just not. Are you claiming Mig suddenly learned how to train in 1991? That is a joke. The motor, the ability to put out power is the same once you hit about 20. IT DOES NOT CHANGE. DO THE MATH. Look at Mig's times up Alpe DHuez pre 1990 and Post 1990. He dropped like 5-8 MINUTES. HOW? Did he lose 14% of his body weight and maintain the same power? LOL. I will tell you how. He was a freak responder to EPO. His massive lung capacity and physiology made him the "best doper". His body was perfect for EPO.
THANK YOU!! I was just explaining to a friend the other day how much better (& genuine) Greg's comeback from a near-fatal shooting (that left his heart, liver & other areas of his body riddled with lead shotgun pellets that couldn't be removed) was, when compared with that of Pharmstrong...sure, the latter's comeback from a shocking case of testicular, brain & lung cancer was also amazing but his method of competing upon his return (the PED use, the bullying & the payoffs to the UCI to hide positive drug tests) was absolutely revolting, & should NEVER be forgotten, nor forgiven...
As a former competitor Greg was my hero. Because I wasn't a doper, I was far from a standout.. The way Lance Armstrong treated Greg Le Mond,, Betsey Andrei and many other people is even more shameful than his doping. Greg Is still my hero. After watching Lance for two years I new what was up. I would prefer to be a moderately successful crit racer than lie my way into Grand Tours. Greg Is the only American to ever win the Tour! We have a long time to wait before we have another one!. It's a phenomenal accomplishment and Greg has done it three times!
I'm old enough to know most of this story well. So inspirational. I'm just wondering when are they going to make it a Hollywood movie? I've been waiting for years.
Great story of a great person and true champion and he didn't have to shit on his friends to do it like LA. The director who made the film The Program with Ben Foster said he had no interest in interviewing LA because he is still playing mind games and lying, mixing in enough truths to fool the gullible.
Yep, to think that the former Tour champions from '83, '84 & '86, who first rode together as teammates in '84 at Renault, who were never separated by more than 50 seconds in the '89 Tour, from start to finish, when Greg pulled back that 50-second deficit in the final TT to win by a mere 8 seconds!! If you had written a fictitious novel or Hollywood movie with this exact plot, people would have laughed afterward, saying that it's not at all believable!! When one takes into account the devastating effects of the shooting upon Greg's body & just how crap the ADR-Agrigel team were that year, with no climbers to support him, it's even more incredible & is still the only TDF that was won with Mavic SSC components!!
Merckx was great but for me Greg Lemond was just the greatest. Thanks Greg you are very special to me. From Tom in Lancashire England, peace and god bless.
@@ritid69 LeMond was much, much better than Lance. He got his wins without teammates, while Lance was delivered to the finish line by a superteam of dopers that controlled every race. Besides... dope.
@@mcaleerjm Thats right. In 81, Lemond took on the Russian "amateur" team at the Coors classic, and with basically no help, he beat them. Lemond was a cycling phenom. Without his accident and being teammates with Hinault, he wouldve won 6 tours. Without PED'S, he couldve won even more.
@@fredpearson5204 and don't forget he had bronchitis in '84. Even though fignon seemed to have that one in the bag.....imagine finishing 3rd in the tour with bronchitis... Damn
@Robert Trageser And yet people still cling to his myth, like the Emperor's New Clothes or true believer syndrome. Even Bradley Wiggins called him an "icon" recently, although there's more than a little irony in that given Wiggo's own "revelations".
After seeing what Lemond went through and what his family went through....and how he came back, I gained a lot of respect for them. This was a really good doc.
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I went out and rode today for the first time in several months on account of this. Thanks Greg 🙏👍.
One of the great honors of my life is that I lost races to Greg LeMond.
No doping in your era?
That is FREAKING AWESOME, Jim!! Chapeau, mon ami!
We were juniors together. They often put him in with the seniors, but some days he raced in his age category, with us.
In one short criterium he lapped the rest of the field .... twice. I remember being impressed when he blew by the first time. When he came around for the second time, I was devastated. It’s like he was a different species.
That was 1980 and he was winning races against Cat 1 seniors.
@@jimbutler1189 It took me a long time to get over him beating me because I was top in socal states 79,80 but when he started winning cat I,II , I became proud of him, I wasn't alone. he beat everybody.
Make no mistake about it, LeMond was using all the best PEDs during the 80s. He beat you because he knew someone who worked at the local pharmacy is all.
I first saw Greg race in Santa Cruz Ca in 1978 when he was 15 or 16. He beat everyone and I instantly knew he would go on to race the Tour de France.
if there's movie about greg lemond, i want to see christian bale as greg lemond...
I´m from Germany, 33 and obviously I´ve never seen him race during his professional career. But for some reason he´s my idol when it comes to cycling LOL
Abnsdllnnlosnfd I have seen Greg Lemond his prime and I can tell that you could not make a better choice.
@@alainhessch Agreed 100%, Hess!!
My endurance athlete heroes: Greg Lemond and Michael Phelps.
Both have inspired me in cycling and swimming.
It wasn't Lance Armstrong who made the greatest comeback. It was Greg Lemond. And he did it the honest way.
@Richard Dixon He's not gay but your boyfriend certainly is, bud. If you didn't have an "older" name like Richard (if that is your actual name, of course?), I'd simply write your inane comments off as those of an annoying 8 y/o but what makes someone write such consistently stupid $hit, may I enquire?!
@Richard Dixon Certainly not by you, Dick!
Lance is what he had to do to be competitive. He was a jerk for sure. But a winner just like Greg.
@@roblee278 Lance has 0 tour wins and Lance was a sociopath who ruined peoples lives, much worse than just a doper.
Pick up your Greg Fan Boy badge when you turn in your shoes.
I STILL tear up after watching the end of the 89 just like I saw it on day he won
Just the greatest of all time. And a man of honour. I had the great good fortune to watch the finish of the 89 TfF live on TV in the UK. Incredible.
I moved to Reno around 94 and went into a bike shop knowing my size and got something nice used for $200. I wondered at the time why Lemond was plastered all over their walls.
Greg Lemond sparked my road cycling interest which you can consider probably the Golden years of cycling during the 80s, for me Greg LeMond is the epitome of the greatest time of cycling ever
For a special occasion, my wife bought me a Lemond Chambery. I'm 72 now and I still participate in the Pacific Northwest STP, a two-day event from Seattle to Portland. What is the weapon of my choice? You guessed it, my Lemond. Why, it reminds me of who put America on the map when it comes to representing the best.
Que de souvenirs ! A great champion ! One of the best in the cycling history ! Congratulations from France 🇫🇷
Read his book in my teens. What an inspiration. Head to head with Lance in their prime this guy wins the tour easy.
Greg is one of the reasons I got into cycling in the first place. Thanks for posting this - I'm in Australia and would never have seen it otherwise
Me too. My first experience watching the Tour was in 85 when I was in England. I saw him being told to slow down so Hinault could win and I felt wronged. Like it was ME. Then I got heavy into it. Then I saw how strong he was in 86 and I went nuts lol. I immediately wanted to be like him.
Me too.
In 1989 I saw Greg close up as he walked past me to the time trial start house at The Tour de Trump in Richmond Va. He didn't look well and seemed a bit gray. That was in May. By late June I saw him again at the US Pro Cycling championships in Philadelphia as he raced by seemingly talking strategy with Alexi Grewal. In America Greg raced for the Coors team. This time he was tan and looked extremely healthy. That's when I knew he had a genuine shot at that years Tour. By the way, if memory serves me right I think he finished 10th at the 89 US pro championship.
A true champion! An amazing cycling career.
greg's win over fignon was the most amazing Ive ever seen. he dominated and for my money he did when he wasnt winning in 87-88 after the gunshot. he was a long run champion. he was just in another league. I loved riding, was a fast rider and used to easily passing most guys, but then I had a stroke in the off season that wrecked my whole right side and literally overnight I was like an old man at the back of every pack and cycling was ruined for me.
Thanks Greg. The only champ who was clean and stayed true to himself and us.
You are the one that keeps me riding. Thanks again.
True Legend.
Greg LeMond is one of the nicest gentlemen and incredible cyclists I have ever met!
Inspirational, True, Hardworking Champion and Survivor - I am Chuffed to Own a Le Mond Bike !
"Had I been able to race in 87 and 88 -I would have dominated the sport" . Greg -give yourself a break -will ya. You made cycling HISTORY as no one else had ever done before .
Well said, John!! But as he added, no amount of wins would EVER have been sufficient for him...LEGEND!
@@lavielemond Yeah . I understand what lies beneath that comment. Guess I'll watch the video again now that I'm here.
I agree, you would have won the tour 87, 88 Greg. Your a legend mate.👍👍
'85 TDF was also his for the taking but he gave in to his loyalty to his mentor, Hinault (who had only just lured him to the team from Renault that year) & the lies of the La Vie Claire team's DS, Koechli (who, years before the advent of race radio, lied to Greg about how far behind Hinault really was upon Luz-Ardiden & instructed Greg to wait for him, when Hinault was more than 3 minutes behind) & who really knows what would have happened from '91 onward (when Greg said that he felt the very best he ever had before a Tour) had EPO not arrived within the peloton as it did? But as Fignon used to say, suddenly mules became thoroughbred horses from one season to the next, such was the effect of EPO (& growth hormone, cortisone, etc) upon the peloton.
After the 70s my heroes were not hockey players anymore. These guys Marco Pantani, Greg Lemond and Tyler Hamilton are my new heroes.
Well, although I always liked Marco & Tyler as personalities, at least Greg, of those three, raced clean!!
BEST DOCUMENTARY IVE EVER WATCHED ON CYCLING N LIFE..THANK YOU FOR THIS!
Greatest cyclist ever. I believe two things went against Greg towards the end of his cycling career, the effects of his injury came back that began robbing him of his health and the peloton resorting to using performance enhancing drugs.
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Legend.
That was close (got shot)... I am so glad Greg made it through.
You are loved Greg
The best U.S cyclist ever bar none! Way better than the drug cheat known as Lance Pharmstrong, the fake cancer survivor.
It’s so strange how his story is very similar to Armstrong. The American cyclist who made a remarkable comeback from adversity. One is good and the other is evil..
I can relate to wanting to quit after the accidental shooting. I am not the same after getting shingles in my eye and all the problems I had from the anti-viral medications they had me on for months that messed up my kidneys and liver. It's taken two years to get almost back to where I was before all that stuff happened. But it doesn't seem that I'm ever going to completely get there.
@Steely Dan 5000 -- Thanks, will keep pressing forward like I have been
Don't over train . Remember -the word "health" begins with "heal".
John Agresti - Yes. I’ve learned to rest more. When I got the shingles I had a huge amount of stress in my life in like every area. Since then things have gotten better and I’ve learned some better ways of coping. The bike helps with that, I just have to not go overboard like you suggest.
@@VegasCyclingFreak OK . Take care of yourself.
Big salute 🫡 to the surgeon! Seeing the mess Greg was in and she pulled him out of certain death is under appreciated.
Fignon also said cycling changed in 91 when doping went nuclear. EPO was now widely used, added to the drugs menu. The speeds went nuts
Greg!
As a 15-16 yr old he beat every 18-34 cat one rider. I watched he tear the legs off any rider who tried to race him. In the Butterfly classic in Pacific Grove he finished 2 1/2 laps ahead of 2nd place. He was just 16 years old
Behind. Greg is a painting/picture of a newly plowed field...odd. but maybe not so...it represents raw potential. Possibility.. belief in growth and youself
I truly believe Lance Armstrong never should’ve got removed from the history books. He was just the best doper amongst all of them dopers.
Wait! It's Greg Lemond here. THE most talented rider of his generation, fantastic palmares, and a great guy. If it wasn't for Lemond, you'd all be following soccer or tennis. I don't get the bitterness and criticism. He spoke French well, stood up for his fellow rider, and blazed a rainbow striped trail for US (and North American) Cycling. Results in MSR, Paris Roubaix, and Tour of Flanders. Not to mention WRR champion a couple of times. Doping? Really? That's your beef with Greg Lemond? C'mon!
The real mvp
Stupid bad luck here. Greg lemond could have won more tour de France titles.
Yep, between the '85 Tour that was his for the taking, if not for loyalty to "Le Blaireau", who had only just brought him to La Vie Claire that year, then the lost '87 & '88 Tours & finally, the arrival of EPO throughout the peloton & the effects of lead poisoning (from the shooting in early '87) from '91 onward...thank God he was still able to win 3 Tours & 2 Worlds titles, though...
The Tour Le Monds!!!
The footage is all over the place and showing clips and images from the incorrect years. Very sloppy. At least the narration is accurate.
Had he not wanted to go hunting animals for fun he’d have won the Tour 5 times.
Greg couldn't do dope, it wasn't in his DNA to cheat, he was also too much of a gentleman to put down lance when everybody knew.
I don't Like to swear but this guy is such a fucking dude. An American gentlemen unlike some I could mention
As a cyclist since the late sixties, ( my grandfather was a velodrome bike racer ) I absolutely loved watching Greg LeMond’s career and i am a huge fan of him. However I have to say I also still admire Lance Armstrong till this day, I understand he cheated, ( along with the rest of his competitors ) but Lance like Greg was still the best of his era and raised more money for cancer research than just about anyone else ever did. I’m not condoning what he did, but if everyone was clean in Lances era he still would’ve won a couple of Tour’s. You don’t have to pick between them, you can like them both!
brilliant
Why do these videos never have an "air date"?
When Greg made filet mignon out of Laurent Fingnon in that famous TT I just laughed.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I met him and his dad at a race in Santa Cruz Ca. And again in Pacific Grove where he lapped the other racers 2 1/2 times.
He's riding like dog sh#t and suddenly a switch goes off and he wins the Tour de France. What a story. If I didn't know any better I would be suspicious in a sport that has long had a history of doping going back to the very first Tour with riders allegedly using alcohol to dull the pain to the years of alleged amphetamine abuse in the 40's 50's and 60's and blood doping, steriod use, EPO of the 70's, 80's, and 90's and beyond. But as far as I know he never failed a drug test and he has certainly been very vocal against performance enhancing drugs. So, it's an amazing story! Good for Lemond!
This guy is the guy, lance who? Greg the 🌎🚲🟨🇺🇸
The one mistake was not attacking Roche in 1985.
The other was going Turkey hunting...
Absolutely terrible how you were treated, lance wise, I hope you recoup and do well.
i have two team bikes for sale, both produced in the first week of march 83, both nearly complete original
one is size 54, second 57 - both with original parrts - these bikes are a holy grail and massive rare
Also ironic that Lemond bikes was basically ruined after being bought by Trek, the brand that Lance helped make the huge conglomerate that it is today.
Cheers
Actually the LeMond bikes pre-Trek were not very good. Trek at least knows how to make bikes (well, they used to, now they just call Giant?) but they killed the marketing for Greg's brand at BigTex' request.
Why do i think all the negative comments are comming from the Armstrong fanboys?
what if they're hinault fans? what if they're fignon fans? you are making an assumption as stupid as your comment.
@@danjo1967 Sorry Danny, but it was only the Armstrong lovers that ever reacted to leMond that way. Do you remember when leMond correctly accused Armstrong of cheating?
👌🏻👍🏻✌🏻
I think we're all lucky that we can enjoy such a great and heroic sporting event and not just one. Yeah there's the doping scandals, but why don't they turn their attention to the other sports that use it?, i don't care if some of the best doped, i still like them -- the races were extremely!, tough back then, now there's less of an excuse with the better equipment and science. I'm not a cycling nut, but i am a fan, and I feel very fortunate to have gone to the Tour 100 in 2013, i saw two stages in Brittany with my dad, who was one of Irelands best amateur riders and was in the papers as a teen, and raced on the same team as Sean Kelly and also beat him many times, and knew Shay Elliot and named me after his brother...he turned down the Olympic team because of the doping involved.
A very simplistic, fact shy documentary, a real shame. Ie why was he so quick? VO2 max of 93! (Armstrong 78, thus the drug accusation), average fit club cyclist 45-50. The use of Tri bars etc....
Grant Beerling his VO2 max was off the charts even as a teenager, well before your veiled accusations of PED use was available.
@@stevenmeyer9674 PED cannot affect VO2, the accusation was for Lance not Greg, thus his argument with Lance, ie you cannot climb that fast with a VO2 of 78.
Read carefully before making assumptions.
Grant Beerling sorry, reading and replying on a phone is my excuse. My apologies
@@stevenmeyer9674 No worries, all done it!
And there was Greg, beating every doped athlete the natural way......😄
I respect Greg.... sadly Lance a fraud, he worked hard, i respect... still a cheater and a fraud. Best wishes to Greg's family.
The narrator sounds like RDJ.
Hows Greg and his brother-in-law’s relationship now?
His name's Pat Blades & Greg being the wonderful human that he is, apparently they were always all good afterward, although it really messed with Pat badly & as he wasn't an experienced hunter, he probably shown;t have been out turkey hunting with them that day anyway...
Dam I never knew he got shot
Avec Sastre,l'un des seuls cyclistes qui n'est pas été controlé positif après-guerre;la chance certainement
Merckx is GOD .......
Interesting “documentary”. Yes Greg was great but this “documentary” doesn’t really document his 1989 comeback accurately. He was riding the 1989 Tour de Trump against a mediocre peloton (no real big named European racers came over here for that stage race) and in the “mountains” of the east coast he was getting dropped by the peloton. He should have been swept up by the sag wagon but the race organizers didn’t want to embarrass him, which was the right call. This was in April of 1989.
What this “documentary” doesn’t mention is that he was diagnosed with an “iron deficiency” after the Tour de Trump and he was given some type of injections supposedly iron supplements. Then we get to June of 1989 and he’s racing the Giro ‘d Italia and he starts to improve. He goes on to win the last time trial against the competition of the European peloton. Then we get to the Tour de France in July and he wins it. It was no doubt a great accomplishment. One of the greatest moments in sport. But how does one go from getting smoked in April of 1989 against mediocre competition in an American stage race to winning the Tour de France 4 months later? I don’t think an iron deficiency could cause that dramatic of a difference in performance. EPO, blood doping or some other type of doping technique is more plausible explanation. Additionally, remember LeMond was the first to time trial with aero bars which is a huge advantage. Had Fignon used them, he would have won the Tour.
LeMond’s story is a great one, for sure, but we have to remember the whole story.
LeMond was on the juice at certain points in his career. Cycling insiders know this. Even Lance Armstrong knows this. That's why LeMond isn't trusted by anyone even now after he's been "vindicated". Because he chose to throw stones while living in his own glass house. As big a competitor and bully as Armstrong was, he never ratted anyone out the way LeMond did.
"I don’t think an iron deficiency could cause that dramatic of a difference in performance." OK, but you're not Greg LeMond, (or a doctor I assume) the guy who wiped the floor with senior riders as a junior. Was that from doping?
"LeMond was on the juice at certain points in his career. Cycling insiders know this. " Care to name any of these insiders who would put their name on such a claim?
@@larryt.atcycleitalia5786 Seniors in the US we’re not very good. That was in the seventies. Nobody in the entire US was any where near as good as European riders. Even amateur European riders. What matters is going from sag wagon in a US race to TdF winner in an 8 week period. That is not natural for anyone.
*winning is habit-forming. **#TRUMP** that*
Coincidence that Lemond was shot on Hitler’s 98th birthday?
just to stop dreamers of this cheat. Fignon had a egg behind the balls. he was sitting sideways because of that egg. he woulda never lost that TT. just to remind you, Fignon was amongst the best TT riders. a real specialist. with no special device. just a man, a bike and 2 disc wheels. if you don't know what an egg at this place does... believe me it kills like a dog to the point you think you'll not be able to have kids after the race.
And there is video of him riding around with aero bars on his bike before the time trial. His weakness for winning with panache sans aero bars and helmet was the big factor. He immediately lost one mph of speed before he started. The saddle sore did not help.
You think it was Lemond’s fault that Fignon had a saddle sore?
Seriously?
Boils suck. He should have gotten a better saddle.
Greg needs to quit quail hunting.
Greg was great. You’re deluding yourself if you think he beat doped up spanish riders while clean.
But he did
No American rider would ever be on a European cycling team without using PEDs. He never got caught so its easy for him to portray this perfect image.
🐂💩.
I'm 48 and gregs still my hero ,a true monster on the bike thanks for the memories 👍🇬🇧
I wish that I had my team Z jersey and hat.
im 48 ruclips.net/video/Pm7YtFuk4YI/видео.html
i still have one but i was 16 when i had it.. so.. i do enjoy the sight of it still ^^
So…….I just turned 43. Your not that old. Get to work. My dad was working 60-70 hours a week when
He was 55 as a highly skilled mechanic/automotive electric expert.
One of the great honors of my life is that I lost races to Greg LeMond.
Cycling fanatic from Ireland here. I always respected Greg as a great cyclist and a super human being. He was a phenomenal rider and when you look at the quality of his opposition, Hinault/Fignon/Moser/Kelly/Roche/Delgado/Millar : his record is second to none. I hated him when he beat Sean Kelly at Chambery in 1989 : I'm delighted that truth has come out. LeMond is a man of courage and principle.
@Willie Duggan........Hi Willie - I am English and was a spectator at the 1989 Cycling World Championships as I had gone to live with my French girlfriend in Chambery 6 months earlier. [I also managed to see several key mountain stages of arguably the best ever TDF when Lemond beat Fignon].
The Sunday of the Worlds elite men's race started off very cloudy and soon disintegrated into an absolutely torrential thunderstorm - unlike the previous day when the Junior's race was run off in a virtual heat-wave! [all of the British riders abandoned due to the heat!] I actually rode the course and if you watch videos of the race, it simply doesn't do it justice as to just how hard and technically demanding it was!
There were 21 laps of an extremely testing Chambery course, including a brutal 'corkscrew'-like climb with a very twisty and perilous descent. In fact, I clearly remember riders falling like nine-pins as the weather conditions worsened - including many of the main contenders. [there was a story going round after the race that Lemond himself had come off and rode the last 2 laps with a buckled front wheel to win!]
Another memorable event for me was whilst riding the circuit a few days before the road races began - the then pre-eminent PDM squad came cruising past including the likes of Alcala, Breukink, Theunisse, Rooks, Early - and of course, 'King Kelly'. [who was having an really excellent season].
But for me, Lemond's gritty performance that day - was simply staggering! If you consider that he won that years' TDF with virtually no team [his ADR squad was probably the weakest in pro-cycling] and then took the World's when everyone in the sport had written him off - it's a stunning testament to the man's sheer will-power.
I am not that keen of anything 'American' but like you, I have nothing but the greatest respect and admiration for Lemond - both as a cyclist and as a man.
Have always admired Greg and what he did for the sport of cycling in the USA. He’s a true American Hero!
It makes me happy for Greg that Lance was caught and stripped of his wins. Greg told the truth while Lance was a liar and a cheater.
There would be no Lance without Greg. Greg tells the story of Bernard Tapie whisking him around 007 style to meet him on Slaying the Badger. That was the deal that brought the kingpin level money into cycling. Without Tapie's money, the doping in cycling would've stayed low-key. Tapie's money made doping become professional. Greg may not see it that way, but he was part of the influx of money that would bring in the hard doping that led to Lance's rise and fall. So he's no angel, but he's not the Walter White of cycling either.
Greg was an even bigger cheater than Lance.
Lance was just playing the Europeans’ game. What was really awful about Armstrong was how he treated people along the way. I would guess if he hadn’t been such a horrible human being, he wouldn’t have made so many enemies and been busted. He should have stopped while he was ahead. When he came back to race again, he pissed a lot of people off.
@@lordnosebergshekelmasterde6025
BS. You’re full of the proverbial substance.
Stopped riding the bike in 1979. Ten years later, a few weeks after watching the final TT of the 89 tour I was driving to Cannock in Staffordshire to pick up a Rourke road bike and have been riding ever since, thanks Greg...
Watched Greg from his first arrival in the TDF and knew he had the stuff to win that race, and what a fabulous humble fella he was and is. Mr Armstrong should have taken a leaf out of Greg's book but instead he defined the word "asshole" , hurting many people including Greg. Greg remains for me one of the true greats in cycling from that era and if not for that shooting accident he would have had his 5 tour wins, because there was nobody with his class at that time. VIVE LE GREG .
33 mph average for 15 miles . . . with wind resistance increasing exponentially the higher the speed. Eight seconds for the win, wiping out a 50 second lead . . . my best average was 22 mph on the flats for 50 miles, at age 50, but I wasn't pushing myself very hard. I am seven years older than LeMond, and biked in my teens on Schwinn, and later any frame I could cobble together, once using a long steel pipe for a seat post (I am 6'6"). I would just put the chain on the smallest rear cog and go . . . 1999 I was hit by a car, broke three vertebra, ribs, collar, wrist . . . it took me two years to recover. Enjoyed three years of strong riding, and then at age 50 sidelined by Guillain-Barre' Syndrome. At 67, I am on the bike again, restarting from less than zero.
The "dope" prior to 1990 simply did not work for sustained aerobic power output. Your ATP synthesis is dictated by O2 delivery. It is chemistry/stoichiometry. I will say it again. "Old dope" was worthless for a GC rider. For a GC rider, sustained aerobic threshold power output is ALL that matters. VO2 Max, efficiency, and watts/kg. None of the "old dope" (test, stimulants, etc) would help prior to EPO. None of it would dramatically boost your O2 delivery. So if you want to know who was doping in this era. Look at their speed before 1990 and after 1990. Simple as that. Greg's climbing pace up all the major Tour climbs...it was the SAME in 84,85,86,89,90. THE SAME SPEED. Dig up the UCI splits. If Greg was a doper..then why did his speed stay the same? Have anyone of you actually ever ridden? Have you taken EPO. You have no clue. It is to the aerobic athlete what AAS is to the power athlete. Greg's Tour results...he had the motor to win from his very first Tour - 3rd, 2nd, 1st...then he GOT SHOT....missed two years...then 1st, 1st, 7th, retired. The first generally agreed upon EPO year was 1991...the year he finished 7th, while going the same speed he always had before. Suddenly in 1 year everyone else started training better? That is a joke. Do the math. Then you have a rider like Mig. His first Tour was 1985, a year after Greg. Here are HIS results. DNF DNF 97th 47th 17th 10th 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 11th. The year he finished 10th? 1990. The year he first won? 1991. AGAIN< DO THE MATH. Greg went the same speed...the dopers got faster. Greg got dropped, and then retired. You want to know who doped...LOOK AT THE STOPWATCH. Calculate the power. It is basic bio-engineering / bio-mechanics.
Great post and plenty of science. However Mig had samples taken and they show not one trace of EPO. Don't use stats such as finishes. If you are not getting on the podium (and he wasn't) and you are heavy you shouldn't kill yourself. He bided his time and got batter with age and experience. He had great natural stats - probably as good if not better than any of his competitors. Also he would have had to get it from somewhere and there and there is no way he could simply turn up somewhere unannounced and too many people would have been in on it. It maybe true that some of his support team weren't clean.
What are you talking about? Tests for EPO were not established till years after Mig retired. The first doping test in cycling was used in the 2001 La Flèche Wallonne. How do you explain how he went from an also ran in 86-90...to suddenly being at the front at the same time EPO came to the forefront. He was EPOd up to the max.
shooter7a Indurain wasn’t clean yes, I’d say he doped from 92-96, but 89-91 I don’t think he did blood doped. I have the report of Not Normal by Vayer and from 90-91 he had the more normal climbing power output, standardized 70 kg of 405 watts, similar to Lemond. Made sense, Indurain has vo2 max of 88 ml/kg/min and could have been has high as 90 if his racing weight is as low as 78 kg
@@akl192 NONSENSE. YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. I know you want to believe it is possible. But it is just not. Are you claiming Mig suddenly learned how to train in 1991? That is a joke. The motor, the ability to put out power is the same once you hit about 20. IT DOES NOT CHANGE. DO THE MATH. Look at Mig's times up Alpe DHuez pre 1990 and Post 1990. He dropped like 5-8 MINUTES. HOW? Did he lose 14% of his body weight and maintain the same power? LOL. I will tell you how. He was a freak responder to EPO. His massive lung capacity and physiology made him the "best doper". His body was perfect for EPO.
Always thought Mig's 5 dominating wins and sudden retirement was ... suspicious to say the least.
He made the greatest comeback ever.
THANK YOU!! I was just explaining to a friend the other day how much better (& genuine) Greg's comeback from a near-fatal shooting (that left his heart, liver & other areas of his body riddled with lead shotgun pellets that couldn't be removed) was, when compared with that of Pharmstrong...sure, the latter's comeback from a shocking case of testicular, brain & lung cancer was also amazing but his method of competing upon his return (the PED use, the bullying & the payoffs to the UCI to hide positive drug tests) was absolutely revolting, & should NEVER be forgotten, nor forgiven...
@@lavielemond It was Lance's best effort to neutralize suspicions
And clean. Not everyone can say that.
@@alexanderh9878 Yes that is true and especially in the epo area there he was the last clean top rider.
34:47 lol
Greg LeMond will always be my greatest cycling hero!
Just an amazing human, rider, father, husband...
He gave determination a real new meaning...
Hat goes off to this gentleman...
As a former competitor Greg was my hero. Because I wasn't a doper, I was far from a standout.. The way Lance Armstrong treated Greg Le Mond,, Betsey Andrei and many other people is even more shameful than his doping. Greg Is still my hero. After watching Lance for two years I new what was up. I would prefer to be a moderately successful crit racer than lie my way into Grand Tours. Greg Is the only American to ever win the Tour! We have a long time to wait before we have another one!. It's a phenomenal accomplishment and Greg has done it three times!
Never clicked on anything so quickly in my life. I admire Greg. My inspiration.
Greg is the best American cyclist. His comeback was legit and should be celebrated and revered. Unlike the fraudulent story of POS Lance Armstrong.
I'm old enough to know most of this story well. So inspirational. I'm just wondering when are they going to make it a Hollywood movie? I've been waiting for years.
He's a white male.Not gonna happen in today's world.Sad a great story.
Great story of a great person and true champion and he didn't have to shit on his friends to do it like LA. The director who made the film The Program with Ben Foster said he had no interest in interviewing LA because he is still playing mind games and lying, mixing in enough truths to fool the gullible.
89 the best Tour I've seen
Yep, to think that the former Tour champions from '83, '84 & '86, who first rode together as teammates in '84 at Renault, who were never separated by more than 50 seconds in the '89 Tour, from start to finish, when Greg pulled back that 50-second deficit in the final TT to win by a mere 8 seconds!! If you had written a fictitious novel or Hollywood movie with this exact plot, people would have laughed afterward, saying that it's not at all believable!! When one takes into account the devastating effects of the shooting upon Greg's body & just how crap the ADR-Agrigel team were that year, with no climbers to support him, it's even more incredible & is still the only TDF that was won with Mavic SSC components!!
Merckx was great but for me Greg Lemond was just the greatest. Thanks Greg you are very special to me. From Tom in Lancashire England, peace and god bless.
Well said Tom
Greg LeMond: The greatest American cyclist.
9Ballr except for lance......
@@ritid69 LeMond was much, much better than Lance. He got his wins without teammates, while Lance was delivered to the finish line by a superteam of dopers that controlled every race. Besides... dope.
@@mcaleerjm Thats right. In 81, Lemond took on the Russian "amateur" team at the Coors classic, and with basically no help, he beat them. Lemond was a cycling phenom. Without his accident and being teammates with Hinault, he wouldve won 6 tours. Without PED'S, he couldve won even more.
Watch any videos from the 1986 TdF. If Greg had not been shot, he would have won 5 TdFs and at least 2 Giro-Tour doubles
I agree. I watched him live and was a massive fan. So sad he was shot. How he came back is amazing.
Absolutely. He could have beaten Hinault in 1985, then he won the Tour in 86, then missed two years after being shot, then won in 89 and 90.
@@fredpearson5204 and don't forget he had bronchitis in '84. Even though fignon seemed to have that one in the bag.....imagine finishing 3rd in the tour with bronchitis... Damn
Your math is amazing,
That's 2 less than Lance is in it?
John McLeod Lance nearly died of cancer and he won 7 Tours in a row. Nobody better. Greg a wanna be
The only American winner of the Tour de France. A class act.
Greg lemond is much more real than the other American bicycling champion, lance Armstrong.
To call Armstrong a champion is an insult to Greg.
@Robert Trageser And yet people still cling to his myth, like the Emperor's New Clothes or true believer syndrome. Even Bradley Wiggins called him an "icon" recently, although there's more than a little irony in that given Wiggo's own "revelations".
@Richard Dixon christ how old are you ? go find a reason as to why your still drawing breath!! how did you make it out of the gene pool ??
After seeing what Lemond went through and what his family went through....and how he came back, I gained a lot of respect for them. This was a really good doc.