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 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.
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'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.
I'm more optimistic about cycling right now than I've ever been.
It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.
The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
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.