[Ducati] Riders and their fitness

[Bruce Bellm]

I have to say LeMond is a favorite of mine. As I recall, his team stopped
him from winning the Tour so that Himault, a French national hero, could
win. Hinault had promised to help him to win the next year if he let Hinault
win. The next year Hinault tried to sandbag him and win it again. LeMond
would have none of it and blew him away. Then, after being shot by his
brother-in-law (not related to Dick Cheney :)) he missed two years in his
prime. LeMond came back and won two more tours. So, in my estimation, he
actually could have won 6 tours had bad luck and team "politics" not
intruded. Anyway you look at it both US champions overcame a lot to
dominate. Pretty impressive.

bruce19
----- Original Message -----
From: "justin giron" <xgironx at yahoo.com>
To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Ducati] Riders and their fitness


> Indurain was at least partly responsible for Lance' success.
>
> Convo they had led to Lance' higher steady cadence @ lighter
> resistance tactic that let him smoke potato-mashing Ullrich on
> mountain after mountain.
>
> On Jun 8, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Rich Roberts wrote:
>
> > genetically gifted for sure. Indurain was my favorite, big guy,
> > though today it is all about Lance, I think Indurain will remain my
> > favorite champion.