Originally Posted by
canklecat
And he focused mainly on the TdF and World championship, during an era when Europeans tended to compete all year, from the spring classics through the various smaller stage races, the crits that helped pay the bills
While he focused only on a couple races, he still did the other races like everyone else. He was often dropped during the early season. I still remember in one of the Tour de Trump or Tour DuPont, he was off the back so far that they gave him a pump and a tubular.
My best memory of him being the team leader was when Atle was leading the Tour DuPont, some guy attacked in the feed zone, LeMond was dealing with his musette and held a bottle in his mouth and chased the guy down and basically told him NO.