American - Athlete | June 26, 1961 -
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
Greg LeMond
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I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.
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I know I'll never feel that sensation of racing and winning again and that took a while to get used to. The Tour was a race I never thought I could lose.
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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.
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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.
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Testing, we will never do enough of it.
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It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.
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I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
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I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.
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If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
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I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.
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The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
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