Greg LeMond
Greg LeMond
Gregory James "Greg" LeMondis an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Road Race World Championship twiceand the Tour de France three times. He is also an entrepreneur and anti-doping advocate. LeMond was born in Lakewood, California, and raised in ranch country on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, near Reno. He is married and has three children with his wife Kathy, with whom he supports a variety of charitable causes and organizations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth26 June 1961
CityLakewood, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.
Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.
I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling.
I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.
No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.
(Training) doesn't get easier; you just get faster
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.