New LeMond interview

[mcteague]

at VeloNews.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/...-lemond_347148

Tim

[stephenmarklay]

Thanks for pointing it out.

[CunegoFan]

Whoah. Dude looks fifteen to twenty years older than his actual age.

[nicrump]

VN: Well, I don’t want to talk too much about Armstrong. It’s hard not to, in the context of your return to the spotlight, but that wasn’t my intent.
GL: I don’t want to either,
Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/...s1FJwIFoLtD.99

yet you always do. ALWAYS. and with an obsession that causes me to question your motives.

in fact the LA debacle seems to almost define the current GL.

but i am a disgruntled fan of both to be perfectly honest.

[peanutgallery]

In perusing the comments about the article on their Facebook page I was amazed to discover that the pro lance crowd is alive and well. Accused him of being a doper and many other things. It's not like -7 can pay them anymore, what gives?

He won 3 tours clean, you'd look like he'll too

[nicrump]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

He won 3 tours clean, you'd look like he'll too

but protests too much...

[CunegoFan]

Originally Posted by nicrump

but protests too much...

My respect for LeMond went down a bit when he started praising Pantani as a great champion and hanging out with Indurain, someone--unlike Armstrong--whose doping actually affected LeMond's palmares. In retrospect it looks like Armstrong's fanboys charge of LeMond caring more about Armstrong eclipsing him in the public eye than doping was not entirely baseless.

[shovelhd]

Great stuff about Quintana.

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by nicrump

but protests too much...

Nick, winners never forget. Some forgive...

[nicrump]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

Nick, winners never forget. Some forgive...

i never forget and i'm not old enough to forgive just yet. but i'm close.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by nicrump

yet you always do. ALWAYS. and with an obsession that causes me to question your motives.

in fact the LA debacle seems to almost define the current GL.

but i am a disgruntled fan of both to be perfectly honest.

Lemond is a 'victim', LA is a asshat...big difference.

[wc1934]

This quote from the interview is great:
"I’ve always thought of vindicated as meaning I’d been vindictive, and it was never about being vindictive".
A class act!

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by wc1934

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A class act!

I wonder. It seems as if many people did not like him. Chalking it all up to jealousy may be naive. Everyone else is the villain and GL is the saint? Maybe, or maybe not.

In the Badger story Lemond describes 80% of the peloton as being against him and for Hinault. Just xenophobia? I doubt it. Even GL's team coach seemed to prefer Hinault. Why? I wonder if it had to do with GL's riding style. He described himself as a counter-attacker rather than an attacker. Others described him as a "wheel-sucker", his coach made it clear Lemond had to be pushed to attack on his own, preferring instead to pair up with a rival for mutual benefit even at the expense of a teammate. Indeed, didn't Lemond eventually win a tour without winning a single stage? Did he lose some of the peloton's respect because of this?

Only a fool would denigrate Lemond's accomplishments, yet in spite of them he seems to have no end of enemies. Did Coppi, Hinault, EM and others suffer the same for their success? I don't know and don't have an opinion but it makes me wonder.

[velomonkey]

Come on, people - this paceline, we're supposed to be above the fray. . . .

Let me put it this way, dopers suck - dopers who bully, sue and bankrupt people for simply telling the truth suck more.

I think maybe, sorta, not sure, that LeMond doped. I knew, without any doubt whatsoever that by 2000 Lance was doping . . . . never mind all the other stuff he did (see above).

Give me Greg every day and twice on Sunday - where is Lance and I'll gladly slap him in the face.

If that's hard to get, I can't help you.

[Wakatel_Luum]

People say LeMond doped...I may be wrong but I find it hard to believe.

My reason for this is Greg LeMond has been touted as 'Mr Clean' by himself and others, if I was him and had previously doped I would not be doing this. If I had skeletons in the closet I would be damned worried that someone would be ready to spill the beans...to date no one has done this?

If I remember correctly LeMond left PDM because they wanted him to take drugs...just like Banesto wanted Hampsten to do too. And LeMond was winning pretty much from day one, as a teenager riding with seniors...didn't LeMond also have the largest lung capacity in the field only second to Indurain?

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-07-..._1_greg-lemond

http://www.si.com/more-sports/2013/0...8-giro-ditalia