Long Live The American

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I have always liked Greg best.  I had posters of him on my wall.  I have a painfully easy to see Team Z jersey for crying out loud, and I still wear it.  Now listen to Greg.  Support his efforts if you feel so inclined.  That his mouth is now 10 times stronger than his legs are is something I feel inclined to support the crap out of, too.  He’s a class act, and I’ll forever consider it some limp sauce that he lost a job because of this whole Golden Seal Oliver North debacle.    He’s still hitting the bricks with the same grit that he used to curb the Badger, but in different ways.  He’s the damned American who bagged the Tour de France.  In a multiple of 3, no less.

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Can anyone help me out? I know this sounds kind of lame but I am not well versed in social marketing. I would like to send a message to everyone that really loves cycling. I do not use twitter and do not have an organized way of getting some of my own “rage” out. I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling’s history- resign Pat if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

Pat McQuaid, you know dam well what has been going on in cycling, and if you want to deny it, then even more reasons why those who love cycling need to demand that you resign.
I have a file with what I believe is well documented proof that will exonerate Paul.
Pat in my opinion you and Hein are the corrupt part of the sport. I do not want to include everyone at the UCI because I believe that there are many, maybe most that work at the UCI that are dedicated to cycling, they do it out of the love of the sport, but you and your buddy Hein have destroyed the sport.
Pat, I thought you loved cycling? At one time you did and if you did love cycling please dig deep inside and remember that part of your life- allow cycling to grow and flourish- please! It is time to walk away. Walk away if you love cycling.
As a reminder I just want to point out that you recently you accused me of being the cause of USADA’s investigation against Lance Armstrong. Why would you be inclined to go straight to me as the “cause”? Why shoot the messenger every time?
Every time you do this I get more and more entrenched. I was in your country over the last two weeks and I asked someone that knows you if you were someone that could be rehabilitated. His answer was very quick and it was not good for you. No was the answer, no, no , no!
The problem for sport is not drugs but corruption. You are the epitome of the word corruption.
You can read all about Webster’s definition of corruption. If you want I can re-post my attorney’s response to your letter where you threaten to sue me for calling the UCI corrupt. FYI I want to officially reiterate to you and Hien that in my opinion the two of your represent the essence of corruption.
I would encourage anyone that loves cycling to donate and support Paul in his fight against the Pat and Hein and the UCI. Skip lunch and donate the amount that you would have spent towards that Sunday buffet towards changing the sport of cycling.
I donated money for Paul’s defense, and I am willing to donate a lot more, but I would like to use it to lobby for dramatic change in cycling. The sport does not need Pat McQuaid or Hein Verbruggen- if this sport is going to change it is now. Not next year, not down the road, now! Now or never!
People that really care about cycling have the power to change cycling- change it now by voicing your thought and donating money towards Paul Kimmage’s defense, ( Paul, I want to encourage you to not spend the money that has been donated to your defense fund on defending yourself in Switzerland. In my case, a USA citizen, I could care less if I lost the UCI’s bogus lawsuit. Use the money to lobby for real change).
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
Don’t buy a USA Cycling license. Give up racing for a year, just long enough to put the UCI and USA cycling out of business. We can then start from scratch and let the real lovers in cycling direct where and how the sport of cycling will go.
Please make a difference.
Greg

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73 Replies to “Long Live The American”

  1. I had the pleasure of seeing him at interbike probably like 5-6 years ago. I had the chance to chat with his wife for 10-15 min at one of the meet and greet after parties. A true class act and really nice lady. I let her know that her husband was the reason I got on a bike .At the time Lemond was not all that popular, because of his vocal stance on the whole Lance thing.As I eneded the conversation with his wife I let her know that I thought Greg was right, She smiled and said thanks. Its funny how he had so few believers then…From years of being in the industry I have alot of autographs , only he and Tinkers get a spot on the wall.

  2. Reed you are a fuggin douche bag.

    LEMOND has the highest recorded VO2 of any of the Tour Champs.

    Scorched earth is the only way it will truly change, AND YES THANK YOU UNCLE MUSCLES aka FLOYD LANDIS.

  3. …absolutely true…greg lemond does have the highest recorded vo2 of any of the tour champs & that information is the reason greg has been so vociferous in his response to the ‘armstrong era’…

    …when epo became the drug of choice near the end of greg’s career, he couldn’t fathom how his ass was being handed back to him on a regular basis by guys he knew he should be either keeping pace with or even kicking their ass..

  5. I know no one is going to agree with me, but maybe, just maybe, it’s time we faced facts and realise that Doping should not be illegalized…. Who cares if a competitor fills their body with EPO, or cocaine, or 12 espressos before a race? Racing only exists to sell shit anyway. The TDF was created to sell newspapers,and teams wouldn’t exist without sponsers, just like pro football mostly exists to sell shitty beer and pickup trucks…
    Are we going to strip some journalist of their Pulitzer Prize because they drank while writing their prize winning article?
    …just wanted to put that out there…
    Love the site, and think biking is one of, if not the, best things humans have come up with. Nothing has giving me more joy in my life, and yes, it’s true, I’m not a racer (thank god, or whoever…)

  6. Alan, an all dopers league? Sure, as long as it is above board and in the rules fine.

    Start one, invest some of your own money in it if you actually believe in it. Good luck with you investment.

    Cheaters suck, hence dopers suck.

  8. Greg,
    Tinker’s awesome, truly deserving of the admiration and respect he’s earned. He’s one of my all time favorite racers. Way better than John Tomac however? If you say so.

  9. Graphing it all out,

    Tomac? way before Tinker & several shades of awesome!!

    Tinker? man’s a fucking rock at least!

    Together?

    We’re blessed that these Gods walk amongst us…

  11. …headline – “lance armstrong to be burned in effigy…”…

    …effigy is a small town in the midlands…(old ‘mad magazine’ joke)…

  13. …so, uhhh, mikey…what exactly would YOUR personal point be ???…

    …ohhh, right, “pro cycling sure does suck tese days”…

    …other than that, what do we really have here ???…

    …a couple a’ swiss lawyers, who perhaps as a professional courtesy, present a disingenuous statement of defense regarding the statute of limitations in the armstrong case in order to achieve what end ???…less solidarity amongst the majority ???…however, said statement is immediately rebutted with circumstantial reasoning by the usada…

    …okay, granted, nice touch, finding swiss lawyers in particular to make a statement because as we all know, there is such a reputation of neutrality amongst the swiss…well at least as long as one doesn’t scratch a micron beneath the surface…

    …what i see is akin to swiss cheese…full of holes…

  14. What I see is an utterly failed and ineffective, ego-driven “anti-doping” administration which seeks to blame athletes for its own complete failure, almost fifteen years after the fact. Fucking lame.

  15. …perhaps you’d like to break that down a little more specifically as to which administrative groups did or didn’t do what & how much cooperation was shared by said groups to achieve anything as regards results…

    …too much generalization…again you’re painting w/ a wide brush…

  17. @BGW— it’s a pretty wide failure, my friend.

    @guest— hey man, like, duuuude, let go of the negativity… you’ll be a happier person. nother beer?

  20. …ahhh, cap’n tony…as they say “…to the victor go the spoils…” but therin lies my personal dichotomy…

    …the swiss would be aghast at the very thought of their “hole-ier than thou” cheese being made with anything but milk from pure “summered in the alps” cows but whilst having a low tolerance to bovine products, i’ve been a man of only the cloven hoof since the late ’70’s & it’s le chevre’ that caters to my gastronomical dairy needs…

    …so, to those who would indulge, all the swiss cheese in the world is yours as i ponder if the cloven hooves provide me with my devilish attitude…

  21. That’s a pretty roundabout way to say that cheese gives you the shits, BGW.

    And since we haven’t heard from that chronic masturbator and all around fat fuck Triple D, I’ll say it for him.

    “This thread has turned to shit.”

    Triple D’s theme song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnS-7IM8Knk