LeMond snatches the closest Tour ever
Early in the morning of the fifth stage of the 1989 edition of the Tour de France, José De Cauwer, the sports director of Greg LeMond’s ADR team, could be found pushing a bicycle through the corridors of a hotel in Brittany. De Cauwer was looking for the room of Claude Jacquat, the head of the Tour’s race jury. Jacquat had barely woken when he heard De Cauwer knocking on his door and angrily answered while still wearing his dressing gown. ‘What are you doing here?’ he barked. ‘Are you crazy?’
De Cauwer was not
