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[OnTheButton]

LeMond

Is it just me or can this guy not go away quick enough? He is po'd that he has been marginalized as America's greatest cyclist and just cannot leave it alone.

Based on his proposition Astana/Discovery has the greatest masking agent EVER! They searched their bus to know avail. And no doubt they have probably been the most tested team in the last yr due to reputation.

Let it go Greg....just let it go.

I am thinking seriously of taping over his name on my frame.

 

[goober]

Is it just me or can this guy not go away quick enough? He is po'd that he has been marginalized as America's greatest cyclist and just cannot leave it alone.

Based on his proposition Astana/Discovery has the greatest masking agent EVER! They searched their bus to know avail. And no doubt they have probably been the most tested team in the last yr due to reputation.

Let it go Greg....just let it go.

I am thinking seriously of taping over his name on my frame.

OH NO - you bought one of his Huffy replicas? J/K

 

[Chomsky]

Is it just me or can this guy not go away quick enough? He is po'd that he has been marginalized as America's greatest cyclist and just cannot leave it alone.

Based on his proposition Astana/Discovery has the greatest masking agent EVER! They searched their bus to know avail. And no doubt they have probably been the most tested team in the last yr due to reputation.

Let it go Greg....just let it go.

I am thinking seriously of taping over his name on my frame.

Have you seen some of his old interviews where he threatened to punch someone on camera, claimed that the reason he lost the 91 TDF was magically 70 or was it 75% of the peleton started doping that had not doped the year before, or his claims that Lance admitted to him that he has doped. He seems to have some anger issues, credibility issues and a need for attention. I have always thought he was a little nuts. How nuts is open to interpretation. But then again that does not mean that LA has not doped.

 

[mambo#5]

I used to be pissed at Lemond, but knowing he is an abused child, I feel sorry for him now.

 

[colwildcat]

He's become the equivalent of the idiot that stands on a cardboard box and screams that the end is near with a megaphone as I leave Bronco games every Sunday in the fall. It's high comedy mixed with some real sadness for what he's turned himself into.

 

[cody_57]

Well, with Lance Armstrong obviously not burning up the roads, Lemond is now going after Alberto Contador with innuendo and oblique references. (And some pretty direct ones too!)

Refusing to reveal one's VO2Max, don't mean a thing - it's like asking what a rider's training program looks like - from there all kinds of calcs can be done.

 

[DarkWing]

does anybody have a link to the claims made by lemond about alberto?
interview?

 

[Escarabajo]

does anybody have a link to the claims made by lemond about alberto?
interview?

Go to the Clinic. There is a thread for it.

 

[Bi Ci Cleta]

Doesn't he have the fastest stage victory ever? Makes you wonder what he was on? Surely, if all these superhero's of today are doping and cannot eclipse his mark (wasn't it even set on the last day of the tour?), he had to be doping as well.

He just needs to shut his mouth and go into hiding. Nobody cares what he has to say anymore. Go away Greg, you are a cancer to our sport.

 

[psychlist]

Old man yells at cloud.

 

[hfer07]

Greg gave us dear memories back in the 80's and he's always been a real fighter against doping. Unfortunately is a one-man fight against an entire System that simply won't stop, as long as the money & the doping mentality remains not only around the riders, but also with in the organizers.
his cause is almost an utopia

 

[Oldman]

Greg's reality

Greg was getting dropped at an East Coast tour 6 weeks, thought about quitting before he went home to train. By himself. Before he won the Tour. I've never heard anyone that got that much stronger riding by themselves...ever. He had former teammates come clean years later discussing EPO as allowing them to "ride like two men". Phil Liggett didn't say it first, a doper did. Lemond's teammate. None of this suggests that Lemond doped. It does offer a context that he should take into account when he questions the ability of others.

 

[the truth.]

DUDE
LEMOND IS GENUINE!

sure he isnt the best public speaker.
but my god he is driven by passion. The guy loves his sport- sees that it is rotten at the top end. His inside info is more that ANY of us will ever know and he just wants to clean it up. Putting his reputation on the line standing against LA (how dare he!). He ran from the PDM team when seeing their back room DR. I really think He rode clean.

Give this/him a chance

http://www.thefredcast.com/index.php?s=lemond

 

[Indurain]

Just because Lemond is almost alone in this fight, it means he is a douchbag? People always seem to mock those brave souls who walk outside the norm and are almost single handedly willing to fight against injustice. At least Lemond isn't sheep like most of the world. He shows the opposite of what you accuse him of. Just because someone is a minority it doesn't mean they are wrong. Study the info before judging. Maybe we are the fools.

If other's were as couragous and as confident in who they are, we would have more people doing what Lemond, Kimmage, Kohl, Bassons, That Kelme guy, Alex Jones et al. are doing. The doping problem would be a lot smaller.

At least Lemond knows which side he is getting hit from. You fence sitters get hit by both sides. Baaa, Baaa. Follow the lead sheep (the general media) and go and walk off a cliff.

 

[ridley]

Is it just me or can this guy not go away quick enough? He is po'd that he has been marginalized as America's greatest cyclist and just cannot leave it alone.

Let it go Greg....just let it go.

I am thinking seriously of taping over his name on my frame.

Yep - I think it is time to get rid of that bike and get as far away form any connection with this guy as possible

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Greg was getting dropped at an East Coast tour 6 weeks, thought about quitting before he went home to train. By himself. Before he won the Tour. I've never heard anyone that got that much stronger riding by themselves...ever. He had former teammates come clean years later discussing EPO as allowing them to "ride like two men". Phil Liggett didn't say it first, a doper did. Lemond's teammate. None of this suggests that Lemond doped. It does offer a context that he should take into account when he questions the ability of others.

What year was the East Coast race? Every year he won the Tour he did the Giro as preparation.
And who are the former team mates you talk about?

 

[benpounder]

Doesn't he have the fastest stage victory ever?

Fastest TT. It did stand for 15 or so years.

 

[Oldman]

What year was the East Coast race? Every year he won the Tour he did the Giro as preparation.
And who are the former team mates you talk about?

It was Tour duPont or something similar. I'm quoting Greg when he referenced getting dropped and nearly quitting the sport. Friends in Napa saw him training in that area with Otto Jacombe. As for his teammates-one of the Belgians admitted using EPO at that time. Again-I'm not saying he used anything; just that the appearances are close the the "circumstancial" evidence he's laying on everyone else. The Iconic Sports Star as the totally clean Judge doesn't suit him. If he wants to improve testing; he should stick to the specifics rather than implicating folks without evidence. Gossip sells, however; and he needs a forum and some income.

 

[LargusMeans]

Now it appears LeMonds info was overestimated and not entirely correct. Puts his numbers off by 10 and Contador into the very low 80s, which is entirely achievable.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/contadors-climbing-credibility-questioned

But for a racer like LeMond, he should know that there are other factors then just VO2 max, anyone that has ever raced a bike or been at an elite level of sport knows that numbers are not everything. From personal experience I think that the power of belief is greater then what many give it credit for. Its those magic words that sink into your head of "I can" that gives you that extra effort or ability, that lets the human spirit achieve things greater then thought possible. The utmost conviction in believing that you can succeed and will means that not always do the fittest or strongest win. And then on the flip side, the dreaded "I can't", that brings instant defeat and doubt and crashes you back to reality and foils everything that you've worked so hard for.

That was one of the reason I was such a Lance fan, his ability to go that extra distance with belief in himself and to have a greater pain tolerance then the rest allowing him to push into that region where you shouldn't be able to go. I truely think that AC has that ability too.

 

[Skeptical57]

No challenge to LeMond?

I am curious as to why no journalist ever calls out his alleged drug use?

Though admittedly surrounded by coincidence, similar factors do not influence LeMonds outspoken criticism and he seems to get a free pass with the press to accuse - but never has to defend his own position.

So, when is a journalist going to grow a pair and ask LeMond the tough question(s)? Or, does abuse just get you a get out of jail free card?
(Perhaps some jails, but certainly not this one)

 

[Dr. Maserati]

It was Tour duPont or something similar. I'm quoting Greg when he referenced getting dropped and nearly quitting the sport. Friends in Napa saw him training in that area with Otto Jacombe. As for his teammates-one of the Belgians admitted using EPO at that time. Again-I'm not saying he used anything; just that the appearances are close the the "circumstancial" evidence he's laying on everyone else. The Iconic Sports Star as the totally clean Judge doesn't suit him. If he wants to improve testing; he should stick to the specifics rather than implicating folks without evidence. Gossip sells, however; and he needs a forum and some income.

I dont want to go down the route of discussing doping - there is a seperate forum for that.
But Lemond rode the Giro prior to the Tour every year he won. When was the Tour du Pont? Has the Belgian rider a name? "At the time" -which year?
Lemond is not bitter - he rarely mentions riders names and he in fact looks as the riders as victims of the system.

Check out this [url="http://www.playthegame.org/conferences/play-the-game-2009/on-demand-streaming/presentation-by-three-time-tour-de-france-winner-greg-lemond.html']speech[/url]
He is a poor public speaker but his passion for the sport is undeniable.

 

[Kennf1]

Gossip sells, however; and he needs a forum and some income.

Oh my god, you think he's profited from speaking out about doping? Do you understand how the system works?

 

[Futuroscope]

i consider lemond to be whiner who speaks many truths. the guy has always been abit weird..but i think he is spot on with many of his accusations.

 

[Kennf1]

I am curious as to why no journalist ever calls out his alleged drug use?

Though admittedly surrounded by coincidence, similar factors do not influence LeMonds outspoken criticism and he seems to get a free pass with the press to accuse - but never has to defend his own position.

So, when is a journalist going to grow a pair and ask LeMond the tough question(s)? Or, does abuse just get you a get out of jail free card?
(Perhaps some jails, but certainly not this one)

Again, what alleged drug use are you talking about? Are you referring to Oldman's post that a former teammate confessed to using EPO?

 

[Epicycle]

What people conveniently overlook is that Lemond was a fan of Armstrong before it was shown he was working with Ferrari. Lemond also praised Landis before Floyd tested positive. People who say Lemond is bitter because other US cyclists have done well are uninformed.