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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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1356.0. "Lemond!! Lemond!! Lemond!!" by PAGODA::HETRICK (George C. Hetrick) Sun Oct 29 1989 22:49

Greag Lemond won the World Championship race today, beating Laurent Fignon
(among others) in a 5 man sprint at the finish.

Tour de France, World Champion -- this is the man the European cycling press was
calling washed up?! I'd hate to see somebody *Good*.
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1356.1THOM::LANGLOISDT Data NetworksWed Nov 01 1989 14:378
    The TV newsmagazine Evening Magazine (in Boston) had a nice little
    piece on Lemond last night. Seems there's going to be a movie based on
    his hunting accident and comeback. And companies are practically
    throwing money at him for endorsements. Those eight billion miles he's
    ridden in his life are paying off bigtime now. He's still a regular
    guy though. With the way everyone was writing him off you'd think he'd
    like to spit in their faces but he's cool about it. Just lets his
    riding do the talking. 
1356.2an apologyLEVERS::GULICKWed Nov 01 1989 15:2215
    In one of the replies that isn't here anymore due to whatever problems
    occurred with this conference over the last day or so, I mentioned
    that ESPN would be replaying the tape of the World's at 3:00 AM
    Wed. morning. I got the info from the Sunday Globe TV section which
    I then promptly threw away so I can't re-confirm it. Anyway, I set
    up my trusty VCR for the appointed hour but to my horror this morning
    when I went to sneak a peek before leaving for work, I see Ivan
    Lendl playing Miroslav Mecir in tennis. I humbly apologize to anyone
    else who made the mistake of believing that I know what I am talking
    about and also missed out on the action.
    
    Does anyone know if/when ESPN will be showing the tape again ?
    
    -tom	
    	
1356.3I have the tape!NOVA::FISHERPat PendingWed Nov 01 1989 16:076
    I used your incorrect advice to ask a friend to tape it for me.  Not
    being one to trust hearsay he checked the schedule and taped it for me
    on Tuesday morning.  I will view the tape tonight and then be willing
    to lend it ... (For non-commercial uses, of course.)
    
    ed
1356.4ESPN CoverageDECXPS::BITTENBENDERMark@DAS1-2/N10 DTN 275-2566Wed Nov 01 1989 16:249
    
    
    	I say the program on Sunday and thought it was very good coverage.
    	As mentioned earlier it was all LeMond.  Would liked to have
    	seen a little more of others like Fignon and Kelly. I also have
    	the program on tape and can make copies.
    
    	Mark
    
1356.5Lemond collides with car?CNTROL::STECKOWed Apr 07 1993 00:007
	Has anyone heard anything about Greg Lemond crashing head on with
	a car recently?...I read a short blurb in the Globe a few days ago
	and expected to see a write up in here somewhere...From what I 
	remember he was only slightly injured.
	
	TS
1356.67950::CRANEI'd rather be on my bicycle!Wed Apr 07 1993 12:520
1356.7reckless driving??IJSAPL::JMULDERWed Apr 07 1993 13:3211
>                         -< Lemond collides with car? >-

	Poor car....
	I saw him on television last sunday, struggling through the
	Ronde van Vlaanderen...
	Last week he participated in the 3-days of the Panne; as that's
	in Belgium he returned home at night, and crashed his car somewhere
	somehow. But nothing serious, or he wouldn't have participated
	 last sunday.
	
							Jan
1356.8well it did say "crashed head on with a car"NOVA::FISHERDEC Rdb/DinosaurThu Apr 08 1993 11:165
    OHHHH, he was DRIVING the car!
    
    I missed that.
    
    ed
1356.9PAKORA::GGOODMANFri Apr 09 1993 07:195
    
    
    Maybe it knocked some sense into him!  Boom! Boom!  :*)
    
    Graham.
1356.10ANY OPENING, EH GRAHAM?WMOIS::GIROUARD_CFri Apr 09 1993 10:194
     Awwwwwwwwwww, Graham. And I was having such a pleasant start to my
    Friday...
    
     Chip
1356.11PAKORA::GGOODMANFri Apr 09 1993 10:405
    
    Look if I'm having to work the Easter weekend then no one is getting to
    enjoy their Good Friday...  :*)
    
    Graham.
1356.12Details (or lack there of) on Lemonds wreck...CNTROL::STECKOFri Apr 09 1993 14:0828
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The following info is from Reuters Sports Report (31 March 93):

	Lemond was slightly injured in a head-on car crash near the Belgian
city of Ghent.  A police official said Lemond was taken to hospital by 
ambulance after the crash late on Tuesday and released after treatment.
He said he had no information of the nature of the injuries.  The driver
of the other car also suffered minor injuries. 

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