No slowing down
Greg LeMond has possibly the most complete CV in cycling. Three-time Tour de France champion, two-time road race World Champion. The only American to have won the yellow jersey (officially), the first non-European Tour winner and the only man to have won the Tour after having been shot. Winner of the closest and most exciting Tour of all time.
He was the first rider to race the Tour on a full carbon fibre bike, the man who introduced Oakley sunglasses into the peloton and the rider who brought Giro helmets into the mainstream. He was the first cyclist to sign a million-dollar contract. He is a bike manufacturer and brand owner who has produced indoor, direct-drive trainers and exercise bikes. He is a vocal opponent of performance-enhancing drugs in cycling and was one of the first to tell the truth about Lance Armstrong. A restaurateur, real-estate mogul, charity founder, recipient of the US Congressional Gold Medal and a world record holder in fly fishing.
You would be hard-pushed to find somebody from any walk of life with experience as rounded as LeMond’s, let alone just in the sport of cycling. And with his 60th birthday rolling around on 26 June, who could blame the American from Lakewood, California, if he decided to kick back, put his feet up and live out the rest of his days fishing and looking after the grandkids?
