Greg Lemond
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On Lance Armstrong:
“At one point, I didn’t have a choice. I knew too much, let’s just say, from 2000 on. At first, after the Festina affair, the story that Armstrong had lost weight and come back, I bought into the story. But then I started hearing rumors. And the rumors were observations from people within the sport. In 2000 I heard some very disturbing stuff from somebody within the team. And I kind of backed away from cycling at that point. I knew I was in a zero, no-win situation.”
“In the months or years to come there will be a lot of stuff, probably, revealed. It’s not going to be just a black period for doping. … He’s destroyed people. If you go against him he tries to destroy you. He’s been trying that for 10 years with me.”
On reduced sanctions for riders who give up their suppliers:
“I’d much rather have a Floyd (Landis) come out and admit it, but give up his source, because somebody’s giving those drugs to somebody. And it’s usually a doctor, a team manager, somebody. And if they do that and it leads to an outing of those guys, I’m all for them racing within six months. Second time, you’re out. All these doctors — they’re the same ones that were doping riders in the Eighties and Nineties. They’re still there. So it’s those guys, and the people who aren’t willing to change that, who need to go.”
