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The veteran journalist speaks exclusively with Bicycling about covering 31 Tours de France, the changes he's seen in the sport, and bicycle racing's rich narrative lines.
- ↑ Abt, Samuel (August 26, 2012). "Rip Lance Time". New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
"I hear that you've written a book about Greg LeMond," Armstrong told me when we first met in 1992. "You going to write one about me?" We had known each other about five minutes. "Yes, I will," I replied, "if you ever amount to much." The book appeared in 2000.
- ↑ Abt, Sam (July 19, 1999). "LeMond Glances Backward From the Top of Alpe d'Huez". New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
LeMond always did like to have a good time, to enjoy the food and wine along the way to winning the Tour de France three times, in 1986, '89 and '90. He might have won a few more but — in a similarity to Lance Armstrong's diagnosis of cancer in 1996 — lost more than a season after he was shot and nearly killed in a hunting accident in 1987.
- ↑ "Samuel Abt". VeloPress Authors. VeloPress. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ↑ Harris, Roy. "The Race To Publish the Pentagon Papers".
- Bibliography
- Abt, Samuel "LeMond: The Incredible Comeback" (1990) Random House, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-394-58476-8
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