He also returned to the Champs-Élysées in 1989.
Greg LeMond found himself thrown back 31 years when on the Champs-Élysées, he won the Tour de France, beating Laurent Fignon by 8 seconds.
In the United States, the three-time winner of the Grande Boucle did not miss anything of the incredible final of the Tour 2020.
What do you think of Pogacar's victory?
Greg LeMond.
It was amazing!
What a great race, but what a nightmare for Roglic.
He had a great Tour and I feel very sad and bad for him.
He seems to be a good guy and on the other hand, I'm happy for Pogacar, what a dream for him.
To win a Tour at 21 is something crazy.
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Does that remind you of your duel with Fignon in 1989?
Of course.
We watched the stage on TV with my wife and we were very excited, as people probably were in '89. I didn't realize it at the time.
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Were you in the same state of mind as Pogacar then?
The difference is that I was hoping to win the Tour on the last stage.
Pogacar surely didn't think about it on Saturday morning.
In 1989, my ambition arrived little by little.
I had had a hunting accident two years before and if I had been told at the start
You win a stage and you finish in the Top 20
, I would have signed.
But I walked better and better then, I believed in it.
Do you often think about this day?
From time to time, when I hear about it.
Do you know that I only saw the pictures three or four times?
The first time was in 1994. That's when I said to myself
Oh yes, now I understand why it marked people.
Do you still think that the 2020 Tour is a good vintage?
Absolutely.
It's a chance to see so many young talents coming at once.
It is very rare in cycling.
The last time that happened, when young people took the place of old people, it was in 1983-84 when Fignon and my generation arrived.
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Do you think Pogacar will win a lot of Tours?
When you have so much talent so young, it's likely.
But beware, he is facing an exceptional generation.
We must not condemn Bernal too quickly.
So much the better, we are going to have exciting years.
It's good for the bike.
Is the verdict of the 2020 Tour as beautiful as that of 1989?
What happened will mark the history of sport.
In 1989, Laurent and I had already won the Tour and we had been teammates.
There, we saw a duel between two runners of the same nationality, coming from a very small country.
It's just exceptional.
