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Transcript: Interview With Racing Legend Greg LeMond
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- May 13, 1994
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: The man who put America on the bicycle-racing map
says he's not about to stop pedaling just yet. First, headlines from
Jean Cochran.
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EDWARDS: The Tour DuPont, America's premier men's bicycle race, ends
Sunday in North Carolina. Some of the world's top racers are fighting
for the lead, but much of the attention is focused on the cyclist
currently in 22nd place. That's because Greg LeMond is a racing legend.
LeMond lives and trains in Europe most of the year, so the Tour DuPont
is the only chance most Americans will get to see the person who almost
single-handedly popularized bike racing in the U.S. When the race
passed ...