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Story about the 86 Tour de France, and the battle between LeMond and Hinault. Very good story, probably good enough for non-cycling fans to enjoy. Only knock was it focuses on LeMond more than Hinault, although at the end it becomes clear that the documentary was actually about LeMond. It's streaming on Netflix.

Sounds like a Seeahill title

Was hoping for a Running with the Bulls kind of thing

i really liked it.

Mad respect for Hinault...Greg continues to disgust but it was an even handed telling of the story. Reasonable folks would come away mixed on them both.

It is a good book. The badger was a tough French farm boy.

Bob Wildes wrote:It is a good book. The badger was a tough French farm boy.

Was the book more even handed in it's coverage of the two? The film was like 80/20 LeMond.

I thought that it was.

The Frenchman came off a bit like a boxer. Very tough. I actually gained some respect for the French
from his part of the country. Made me want to eat bread and cheese.

Age beats all in the end. It was Lemond's time.

This is why I have so much more respect for LA. Greg shows up and crashes a euro party while whining about the rules and complaining. LA shows up gives a nod to the great patrons who came before him and beats them at their own game.

The Badger just highlights how much in common the non Parisian French have with the U.S. They repsect brash decisive leadership and unapologetic aggression

Blaidd Drwg wrote:i really liked it.

Mad respect for Hinault...Greg continues to disgust but it was an even handed telling of the story. Reasonable folks would come away mixed on them both.

I tended to more or less agree until the last ten minutes or so. Props to LeMond for not getting off the cross the entire movie-- I admire his consistency.

Turdacious wrote: Props to LeMond for not getting off the cross the entire movie-- I admire his consistency.

Very True....to the point of chiding his wife for even suggesting that it wasn't all bad.

I have a good friend who is convinced that Kathy's haircut and glasses are what gave Greg Mitochondrial myopathy

Blaidd Drwg wrote:This is why I have so much more respect for LA. Greg shows up and crashes a euro party while whining about the rules and complaining. LA shows up gives a nod to the great patrons who came before him and beats them at their own game.

IMHO, LeMond barely makes the lead pack in the shitbag peloton, well behind LA and king Boyer.

Turdacious wrote:

Blaidd Drwg wrote:This is why I have so much more respect for LA. Greg shows up and crashes a euro party while whining about the rules and complaining. LA shows up gives a nod to the great patrons who came before him and beats them at their own game.

IMHO, LeMond barely makes the lead pack in the shitbag peloton, well behind LA and king Boyer.

Damn Turd. He did win three titles.

Bob Wildes wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

Blaidd Drwg wrote:This is why I have so much more respect for LA. Greg shows up and crashes a euro party while whining about the rules and complaining. LA shows up gives a nod to the great patrons who came before him and beats them at their own game.

IMHO, LeMond barely makes the lead pack in the shitbag peloton, well behind LA and king Boyer.

Damn Turd. He did win three titles.

His insinuation that Indurain only beat him by doping was what put him over the top in my eyes.

Lemond was just as dirty as the rest of them, but like Carl Lewis, he wove the flag of drug free competition...not in the name of fairness, but attempting to self promote.

I met Carl Lewis and had a brief conversation. I asked him about racing Ben Johnson, and he looked a little miffed but then said "Ben was fast. Very fast." And left it at that.

On LA...I disliked him until all the attempts to crucify him started, now I respect him for being a ruthless competitor and consider him right up there with Phelps as a dominating American athlete, so good that at his prime nobody could touch him.

Sounds interesting. I may have to watch this tonight.