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 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 used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
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.
It never gets easier; you just go faster.
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
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.
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 problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
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.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
When you get second place, you say 'I could have won it here, I could have won it there.' When you win, you never say anything; it's finished.
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.