Greg LeMond - How Have Steroids Changed Cycling?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/17/Ethics_Doping_and_the_Future_of_Cycling

Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond discusses the effects of drug doping on professional cycling.

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Ethics, Doping, and the Future of Cycling with cyclist Greg LeMond.

Greg LeMond has long been a critic of doping in cycling. During 2007, he played an unexpected role in the international arbitration hearing that eventually decided American cyclist Floyd Landis should forfeit his 2006 Tour de France title due to testing that found abnormally high levels of testosterone. LeMond testified that he had spoken with Landis after his "A" urine sample had tested positive, urging him that if his "B" sample was also positive, he should come clean, help his sport, and "more importantly, help himself." Before his testimony, LeMond had been threatened by Landis' manager.

The doping problem has been most public in the Tour de France - two stage winners of the 2007 Tour withdrew from the race amid doping allegations - but its influence is so pervasive that T-Mobile recently withdrew its sponsorship of a professional cycling team, stating that the company did not want to associate its brand with doping. - Santa Clara University

Greg LeMond is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three time winner of the Tour de France in 1986, 1989, and 1990.


Gwen Knapp is a staff writer for the sports section of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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[hghepo]

His cancer is more likely to be used for his abuse of steroid for which he was well-known inside cycling. No one pro-rider was very surprise of his cancer. In 1993 some of the riders had said they needed a separate category for guys like Lance who seemed to have no limit for doping.

[u368]

Idiot. On that ITT Lemond beated the second by just a few seconds... the third was close ... and so. So they all set a record that day. Why?

Because it was a long downhill short ITT (24km)from Versailles to Paris with tailwind.

Despite using aerobar providing him a gain of 1 or 2 sec by km, Greg beated Thierry Marie by just a bit more of 10 or 20 sec!

Not a doped performance !

[yesroh]

People keep concentrating on LeMond. It's no longer LeMond. If LeMond disappeared, you'd still have a lot of close friends and close teammates of Armstrong who have sworn testimony that Armstrong doped, and there's a federal investigation. If there was no basis for LeMond's statements (and he never said Armstrong doped--btw) then it would blow away. It has only gotten exponentially bigger over the years.

[yesroh]

History will show that LeMond was and still is the greatest cyclist to ever come out of the US. Armstrong is just a punk who cheated and bullied everyone who told on him, including his closest friends.

[CiachoLover]

@sleepyhead7391 Nope.

[dachicagoan]

All I can say is that I find it odd that Lance went from not being a contender in the mid 90s to passing the best cyclists as if they were 3 yr olds on tricycles. That is IMPOSSIBLE in cycling.

Also, during Lance's reign, the top contenders have tested positive for drugs: Ullrich, Basso, Landis, Virenque, Zulle, Moreau, Pantani, Vinokourov, Simoni, Gonzalez de Galdeano, etc

And we're supposed to believe Lance was clean because of no evidence?Remember OJ & Casey Anthony were acquitted...

[musicNsoccer]

@juandi2570 Hey I know you, you're Barry Bonds!

[Silligk]

@juandi2570 He HAS failed a test...get your facts right. And i think we all know he doped by now, i bet your american lmao...

[sleepyhead7391]

woah, hang on there, didnt lemond get caught doping in his day too?

[dan32113]

@SuperOlds88 difference with aero bars is that you are not hiding, like drug taking! Lance has taken drugs no doubt, just like Pantani did, & Bjarne Riis both Tour de France winners in Armstrongs era. Landis & Hamilton have admitted it now. The truth WILL come out!

[SuperOlds88]

I use to like Lemond, still think he is a great cyclist, but anybody can make up the past. He would have eaten dog turds if his father or coach would have asked him to. What a load of B.S. this is. He is telling this stuff to a bunch of people who are so naive it's ridiculous, just to make himself look good. He is pissed that rEPO came along and he couldn't keep up with the leaders anymore. Athletes are always looking for advantages, just like his aero-bars and helmet, what a hypocrite.

[bearmare]

If Lance has never tested positive, the question that must be asked is that is Le Tour in cahoots with those who use drugs. Given the news about widespread corruption within FIFA and other sports governing bodies, there can be no doubt that the light must be placed on the Tour's governing body. If Lance did use drugs, it's because the Tour turned a blind eye to that fact.