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From: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Greg LeMon(d) -- that day in the Pyrenees
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:52:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 16:52:46 1985
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Reply-To: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP (Roger Hayes)
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Bicycling is a team sport.  Lemond rode to team orders, in a very tough
situation.  

If he had gone on and worked with Roche, he might not have dropped 
him; if he had, it would not have been by 4 minutes.  So by sitting
on Roche's wheel, he protected Hinualt's lead of over 5 minutes on
Roche.  Any time he made on Hinault, would have helped Roche do 
the same.  The result might have been Roche, not Lemond, as the 
eventual winner.  (There was still a time trial ahead, remember).

He was upset about it, of course -- he was close enough to taste it.
As he said on TV, it might have been a once-in-a-lifetime chance.
Let's hope not.  He certainly has shown a great deal of ability, and
a great deal of class in doing the honorable thing on that climb in
the Pyrenees.