As an anti-doping campaigner, he became embroiled in a vitriolic battle with Lance Armstrong and the American bike manufacturer Trek, which poisoned his love of cycling, tainted his reputation and threatened his financial security until he was very publicly exonerated. He pioneered the use of many technologies – from carbon frames to aero bars – now ubiquitous among cyclists. But cycling glory constitutes only half of his tale.Īpproaching his athletic prime in 1987, LeMond was accidentally shot while on a turkey shoot, losing 65% of his blood volume and coming within 20 minutes of bleeding to death, before staging an incredible return to the top two years later. His success was so monumental he was invited to the White House by US president Ronald Reagan and was the first cyclist to grace the cover of iconic US magazine Sports Illustrated.
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The American cyclist won three eventful Tours de France, triumphing in a bitter duel with his team-mate and nemesis Bernard Hinault in 1986 to become the first non-European Tour champion, and clinching a tense final-day time trial in 1989 to beat Laurent Fignon to the yellow jersey by just eight seconds – the narrowest margin of victory in Tour history – before storming to his third title in 1990.Īrmed with an almost superhuman VO2 max of 92.5ml/kg/min (one of the highest rankings of aerobic fitness ever recorded in any sport, and almost triple that of an ordinary healthy male) and capable of sustaining 460 watts, LeMond also powered to two UCI Road World Championship titles in 19. In 2018, he created the Otto Jacome Cycling Team.For a man who enjoys a tranquil life filled with fishing trips, hikes and hearty plates of Mexican food, Greg LeMond has had an extraordinarily dramatic career. Their partnership continued until 1995 when Greg LeMond retired from cycling, so Otto also retired as well. In 1990 Greg switched teams, and went to “Z” from France, taking Jacome with him and winning his third tour of France. A year later he won the world championship in France. That year Greg won the Tour de France with the closest margin in history, beating Frenchman Laurent Fignon by only 8 seconds. In 1989 they went to the ADR Team of Belgium. The same year, Bernard Hinault won his 5th Tour de France. In 1985, Greg LeMond invited him to work as a masseur at the Coors Classic with the La Vie Clarie team.
The Monterrey newspapers recognized that thanks to the interval system that he trained with Otto, they helped him win. In 1983, Mexican cyclist Luis Rosendo Ramos won the Pan American Games in Colombia. He took a sports massage course in San José and in 1981 introduced the (now very common) interval system. He led the MC Root Beer team to the Vuelta de Baja California. In 1980 he led the Northern California team in the Coors Clasic Vuelta Semipro. He was a youth coach at a sports club in San José, California. He took a national coaching course at Colorado Sping and the USA Federation sent him as Technical Director to Monterrey. A year later when Greg was 17, he took him for a run to Tijuana, and in 1979 he formed the Norte de California quartet with Greg, Bob, LeMond’s father, and two others. In 1977 his children started cycling and there he met Greg LeMond. In the United States, he practiced tennis and diving. In that same year, he fixed his passport and went to live in San José, California where his life would change completely. He practiced many sports such as cycling, football (soccer), boxing, and athletics until 1962, the year in which he was National Middleweight Champion in Puebla and Mr.
Otto Jacome was born on March 3, 1937, in Monclova, a city and the seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. Greg LeMond on a training ride in the Early ’90s
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