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- Greg LeMond helped
- make the sport of cycling
- more popular in the United
- States by winning the
- prestigious Tour de
- France race three times between 1986 and
- 1990.
-
- Greg began cycling when he was 14 years
- old, accompanying his father on long bicycle
- trips. A year later he competed in his first
- race and was hooked. In 1984, he entered
- his first Tour de France and finished third.
- He was the first non-European competitor
- ever to finish in the top three. He won the
- race for the first time in 1986.
-
- Soon after, Greg showed himself not
- only to be a great cyclist, but one of the
-