LEMOND: DID CHRIS FROOME USE A MOTOR? | RDMN PODCAST CLIPS

1.LeMond on Motor Doping Suspicions

But I'm a skeptic on everything and really I am I I sometimes can't follow cycling because I sometimes don't believe in I truly believe Motors were used to you went a lot of big races until very recently it was a real deal and I I look at it now they're doing 65 bikes Still You Don't See bike changes like you did five years ago how could it be that either the equipment was so bad Shimano was making really bad equipment but I would see five when I was in Europe I'd received five bike changes by Riders and it pissed me off I I would see it and I knew I know what I've ridden the motor I've seen what's happened with it and I know Insight I I I know who I believe was using it I'm not going to say that out loud because the crazy one is that I look at is the capital Muir in tour of Flanders where we have Boone and Consular and building is literally sprinting full gas our Consular goes away from them seizes on the Capcom Europe to the cathedral the camera pans out and then it goes back and you see the Gap inside 300 meters is gone to 20 seconds 30 seconds an unnatural size Gap in that amount of period of time unless Boone and had got off the bike and stopped but he was still sprinting full gas that for me was a moment and I've talked to some friends who are you know racing at the time in Flanders that year and you know it was a lot of people felt there was a motor used there yeah I've talked to Pros on a team that knows they were used in this same team um it's hard to say it outright because until you have the motor and the bike you know it's hearsay I don't want to get sued but another another person again you need to adore it again on tonight but if I if I I'm gonna say this when I could be pop popular but if you look at Chris rooms mount vom2 they released the file I could I believe I could show you it's there's so many unnatural things there now if you go back today and watch some of the performances that period the RPM prints sound insane and remember there is no efficient nobody's efficient at 110 RPMs up a climb ever and the acceleration that was taking place on one two you could watch the one where they match the file to the his wattage output to vom2 you can see him accelerating and the wattage is coming down dramatically uh that should be going up or maintained at a very high level and so it really bothered bothered me and I we we talked with the police and I I'm really we got a new president David lapartean and he took the motors very seriously and I look at it today there is no evidence of that there are no high RPMs there's not these massive bike changes the bike changes were its Insanity because I said either Shimano and these component manufacturers were producing such crap which we know is not the case there's no reason to have five bike changes in or six bike changes in a stage it was it's I've watched these races I'm you know I was working with your support at the time I just wanted to scream it's just like this is this is crazy so I've got a question for you on this one Greg why do you care why is this why have you taken these bottles on from the Armstrong one to speaking publicly about Motors to analyze and cadences you know we have Sean Kelly in this part of the world and he just goes quiet when the conversation gets controversial about the open I've never heard him Express an opinion on anything controversial and that has maybe in some quarters the criticism could be leveled out of them that's compromised as integrity but it has allowed them to maintain uh very thriving and profitable media career you've decided not to take that approach yeah but I understand Chuck it's like this the problem when you're uh he's a commentator he's not a journalist let's say he's a commentator so that's his livelihood you know he's looking at David Walsh all the others are going to take that on um and he would not have a job probably if he did it um and so that's the the difficult thing and somebody's going to do commentating so I can't judge Sean Kelly at all but for me and I had this idealistic I uh a version of cycling when I raced and um but and I'm not an idiot I I feel bad for any professional veteran Pro in the 90s when EPO came in I mean I I am so grateful that I loved cycling so much I was so passionate about the tour that I didn't have to turn pro because I don't know what I would have done I really I'm not going to say I would have been better than everybody else and would have just put cycling because I don't know this was an extract from my podcast with Mr Greg lamon if you want to check out the full conversation you can click here and also don't forget to subscribe to the channel foreign