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.
It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
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.
The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
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.
I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city.