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the most grueling athletic contest in the world. After his comeback victory in nineteen eighty nine, Lehman's celebrity reached heights no one thought possible for a cyclist. He made the cover of Sports Illustrated and was named their Sportsman of the Year. A first for any cyclist. Let's take a listen to the story starting with the man himself.
Greg Lamon. Our backyard was like the Alps. I was wild and into the wild. When I was eight years old, I discovered hiking, fishing, downhill skiing. Coaches said, you know, the best thing for skiing is cycling.
I gotta get a bike. Cycling was a countercultured sport. I kind of tend to not do what everybody else is doing. My dad bought one too.
So we started riding together. There was magic to writing. Even by the end of August, we did a 100K ride, and my dad and I got to talk, and we were like best friends, like teammates. His early career promised greatness. Here's Greg and his father Bob.
I had a 76 Volkswagen van. We'd leave for the Bay Area or Southern California and race. They were amateur races, but Greg was doing very well. I won my 11 races and I'm bored. 16, 17 years old, I went to Europe by myself for two years.
months with 75 bucks in my pocket. Everybody had this mentality that Europeans are unbeatable. mythical actually. They're like they're from another planet. I'm thinking those Tour de France winners have to start somewhere, just like me.
Two races in Switzerland, two races in France, I won them. Went to Belgium, won six out of eight. That's when I wrote my four goals out. This is written in October of 1978, which would have made him 17. Cycling goals.
79 win the Junior World Championship Road Race. which he did. 1980 win the Olympic road race, not possible because of the boycott. By age 22, win Pro World Championships Road Race. Age 25, win the Tour de France.
One of the most historic for the branches. And the ginormous crowd on Al Duez now as Phil Greg Lamont follows the wheel of his teammate Bernardino. There is something magical about the tour. People talk about the Olympics. I go, that's nothing compared to...
the tour as an event. The two riders who have projected themselves without a shadow of a doubt as the two greatest riders in this year's Tour de France. It's a Formula One Grand Prix. New York City Marathon. But doing that for 21 days and with 15 million people.
Because an American is going to possibly win the yellow jersey for the first time. Paul, this has been a tour de France in the greatest tradition of the event before these days is gone. It was the 1985 Tour de France, cycling Super Bowl. where 200 riders covered 2,200 miles in three weeks. that established Greg's legendary career.
Phil, we have a chance to see perhaps an American winner here in Greg Le Monde. Absolutely, John, and really for the first time, Greg Le Monde is now ready to win the Tour de France and add a little bit more history to this great sporting event. Of course, his main adversary is his own teammate, Bernard Eno. He's the man that Le Monde may well have to beat to get that final yellow jersey when the race ends in Paris. You've got 22 teams.
You'll be nine men on the squad. The unique character who wins the Tour de France has just about everything. There's very unlikely to be more than five guys with this unique ability. You've got to be able to climb mountains, you've got to be able to show the descending skills at a hundred kilometres an hour, And above all, you've got to write the individual time trials. We always call it the race of truth.
It's you against the watch. There aren't many riders who've got all that ability, so what they do is they choose a leader who they think have that ability, put him in as the leader of the team. And then the others are called the kitchen help, we call them domestiques. They'll come round you like a queen bee. Their job is to make sure their leader is in exactly the position when it matters.
to win the race because they know he can do it and they can't. Expensive. The story in one paragraph goes like this. Greg's French teammate, Bernard Eno, known as the badger, had won four Tours de Frances and nearing the end of his career, wanted a fifth to equal the Tour record. The young Le Monde was stronger.
Up front, the argument goes on. Le Monde rebels against the team's instructions. He angrily attempts to persuade his coach that he should be given the chance to win the talk. But under pressure from his team and coach, he agreed to support Eno rather than take his first victory. Bernard, you know, five tour wins.
The American story, of course, another historic one for Greg Lamond from Rochau County, Nevada. A kiss from his wife, Kathy. In return, Eno promised to help Lamond win the Tour de France the following year. You know, it's like, oh no, another repeat. But the Badger reneged on his promise.
But everybody feels that Eno is hiding something and repeatedly attacked Lamond during the race and attempts to win again. Le Monde knows now that he must take on Bernard Eno and match him at his speciality. But he failed. Le Monde has simply proved himself to be just too strong for the Badger. Greg's first Tour de France win was achieved not only without the support of his coach and team.
But also in the face of what many fans believed was outright hostility. It was a cowboy mid, reckless and individualistic, and raging against the establishment. But it was the right move and a righteous victory. And you've been listening to Greg Lamond and to his father. Tell the story of this remarkable life.
I loved what he said, our backyard. was like the Alps, hiking, fishing, skiing. He grew up in the mountainsides of Nevada, And by the way, cycling at the time was a complete countercultural sport. And the dad brought him into it and did it with him. Father and son.
competing. And those four goals of a 17-year-old, my goodness, with the last one being. The winning of the Tour de France. When we come back. More of the story of Greg Lamond.
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Let's pick up. where we last left off. Because the race appeared at length on U.S. televisions, America responded. Here's Greg's father, Bob.
We got a telegram from Ronald Reagan, the president, and a letter from him. and Greg was invited to the White House, so it was pretty big in that sense. It was really a landmark in the history of the tour, an American winning the tour, because afterwards it brought more and more English speakers into the sport of cycling. And Lance Armstrong, you know, God bless him. Wouldn't have existed without Greg Le Monde because all of a sudden, the fact that Greg Le Monde won the tour, the world audience of the tour, changed completely.
We are choosing to celebrate this day by looking back at the greatest year in the Tour de France's 100-plus year history. and the American Man. That made it so. And now the proudest moment for Greg Lamont. His name in French means the world.
And this is the world of Greg Le Monde in Paris today, the first American ever to pull on a winner's yellow jersey in the Court de France. But less than a year after Gregg's first Tour de France victory, This happened. There's turkey hunting in the United States and turkey hunting is a spring season. I just backed into berry bushes. I was sitting there and I wanted to look and see where everybody was and when I stood up My brother-in-law happened to be up behind it.
So he shot at the first thing that moved, and that was me. The crazy thing, it didn't hurt. I didn't know it, but my uncle said a stream of blood. from my neck just pulsating out. A steady beat.
They called a helicopter, and the helicopter pilot ended up taking her to UC Davis Medical Center. Yeah, you saved my life. If I would have dr had to go by ambulance, I'd have been dead. I had pellets, about fifty of them. Yeah.
in me, you know, two in my heart, three in my liver. And there's no way they can remove them. No. I have chronic lead poisoning. It bothers me.
So the more I ride now at this age, the worse I get. Greg took what should have been a career-ending two years off from cycling. After two years of absolute hell. I went into the tour. An underdog, everybody wrote me off.
I was racing against a very strong Fignon who won two Tour de France before that. Mm-hmm. Greg will win the stage. Finn Donald winner stage. Gregor take yellow.
Fignon and Take Yellow. It was just every day was a great story. And then we got about four days to go, and Fignon was now 50 seconds ahead of Greg LeMond. The day before the final race, he tapped me on the shoulders and he said, Congratulations on your second place.
Now, he and I were teammates and the same coach. And that coach told us and taught me. The race is never over until the finish line, no matter what. It's never over to the finish line. You never take it for granted.
And when he did that, I said, uh-oh, you've lost the race. At the beginning, it's Advantage Fignon. He will start last wearing the leader's yellow jersey. He chases Lamonde along the course two minutes back. He'll know all the way exactly what time Greg Lamond is doing.
I shouldn't say this. You wrote your story and you want to turn it in quickly and then get out of there. Back on to the banks of the river said that the Eiffel Tower is now looming large on the right shoulder of Bon Street John.
So I wrote my story, you know, Laurent Fignon. withstood Challenge. by Greg Lamond. You can almost see the difference in the speed build. It's incredible to watch Lamont here.
What do you think this man has still got helicopter from that shooting accident? It was Fignon coming up Charps and Lycée. Everybody's screaming and you realize Some point before he made the turn, He had lost. 48 seconds filled. This is the most incredible thing I think I've ever seen in my life.
26-57, he goes into top lane. There was this universal cry of. The crowd has realized it. Lauren Vignon has busted the door of Brazil by his 18 decades. Here was his great story.
dropped in our laps. And all anybody could think of was not going home. I never knew it would affect him so much. I mean I've learned stuff since then. in the 20 plus years after that.
He'd never gone to the Champs-Lyse. In his mind, he would be walking to get the mail and he'd count. 1001, 1002, 1008 seconds. I lost by eight seconds. I just said, hey, Ron, you won two, now I've won two, and we could see next year who'll get third.
In 1990, Le Monde won his third Tour de France. He looked certain to equal the Badgers' record of five wins. But the sport of cycling was about to change dramatically. Lamont 30 minutes behind the leaders and he quits the race right there. By 92 is when I really became aware of it.
Some of the riders looked like it was just a natural progression or they explained it by weight loss. God, you look back at it and it was all lies. Here's Greg's teammate, Andy Hamston. I saw EPO come in. That made phenomenal physiological changes could increase blood levels by 20%.
I watched individuals and then groups of individuals and entire teams mop the floor with me and everyone else who I knew wasn't doping. Here's Greg on Lance Armstrong. Loses it to Lance Armstrong here by seven. History's almost repeated. Absolutely remarkable, but look at the face on Armstrong there.
He's come here on a mission. I bought into the story too with Lance coming back. He had seven victories. Floyd Lamentis won one, so there are eight American victories. As Landis gets off his bike like he's about to deliver the newspaper.
It's a pretty impressive streak there for the Americans. But it wasn't real, that's the sad part. His very The tail just goes on and on. He's got the support of the cancer community, the sponsors, Fanatic fans, and I knew it could be suicide, whatever I said. I don't know who I said it to, but I accept it.
It's illustrated. It's unbelievable. That's all I said. It's unbelievable. Un Be leavable.
Le Monde's most notorious remark was: if Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud. His funniest With the drugs they have these days, one could convert a mule into a stallion. Greg LeMond is now the only American winner of the Tour de France. A lot of cyclists and Americans thought Greg Lamond was jealous of Armstrong.
We now know better. Armstrong has been stripped of his tour victories. This has given many all over the world an even deeper appreciation for what the only American winner of the Tour de France accomplished. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And I'll remember that day.
I had quite a number of friends who just were gripped to this idea that American could win the Tour de France, and there it was on television. For the nation to watch July 27th, 1986. First American to ever win. Perhaps the toughest event. The toughest task.
in sporting history. He wins the tour de France. and in the end opens up For generations of cyclists, generations of American cyclists, the idea of winning and competing. on the global stage. And then came that tragic accident, just a freak accident.
hunting, backing into some berry bushes. and his brother accidentally shooting him. 50 pellets scattered through his body. and he would have been dead. If he'd been taken to a hospital by ambulance, luckily, He was Medevac through Chopper.
And it would be two years. for what would become one of sport's great comebacks. And he was to win a second and then a third. Tour de France. And then the final chapter of the story That Lance Armstrong string of victories.
which had Le Monde sceptical not just of Armstrong's feats, but of what he was seeing as a massive change in the physiology of many of the athletes, which, of course, was explained by the massive doping. occurring across the sport. The story of Greg Lamont, the story of triumph, perseverance, and in the end, overcome it. Here on Our American Story. Or what you do.
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