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Originally Posted by steve B
If Lance is the only rider you know it might take a lot of explaining.
Lance is NOT in the hall of fame.... sort of like Jackson and Rose.
Major Taylor
Bobby Walthour Sr
And junior
Steve Hegg - Olympic gold in 84 plus a silver, several national championships.
John Howard - Olympic team 68, 72, 76, Won the road race in the Pan Am games in 71, four national championships, won the 81 ironman, and oh yeah, a motorpaced world record in 1985
Rebecca Twigg- six world championships in Pursuit, 16 national championships.
Ted Ernst- as a contibutor, having a family history of bike shops supporting racers. But he also was a pioneer of US riders competing professionally in Europe in the early postwar era.
And a bunch more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...g_Hall_of_Fame |
Greg Lemond, who has been a vocal critic of Lance Armstrong, is who first came to mind for me.
Lemond's run in the 80's was when I was first started following the Tour De France. "American Flyers" and "Breaking Away" were two of my favorite movies when I was a teenager.
Sadly, I dropped the biking road trips with my friends after I got my driver's license and cars became much more convenient to get around in.
