LeMond yelped with joy. As he had done on every other occasion going back to his second place in the 1984 Giro, Fignon shunned the niceties of aerodynamics. Paul Kimmage says that during that very evening while Roche was in misery in his hotel room, the management of his team was already in talks with LeMond to see if he would come over to the Fagor squad the following year. Won by Greg LeMond before Pedro Delgado (2nd) and Laurent Fignon (3rd). Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon fought a fabulous battle that wasn't settled until LeMond won the final time trial in Paris. Does anyone really believe he just lost track of time...... come off it! LeMond decided that he didn't want to get time splits.

Fignon caught him and countered. Delgado and Theunisse also got the same time that day.So, here was the General Classification going into the final stage, a 24.5-kilometer time trial from Versailles to Paris. He even wore a wind-dragging ponytail. In the next day's stage with the Izoard, LeMond was able to gain another precious 13 seconds. The idea that he could take almost a minute out of an in-form Fignon in such a short distance was not preposterous, but it was unlikely. 3285.3 kilometers ridden at 37.487 km/hr 1988 winner Pedro Delgado started the first time trial 2min 40sec late, probably costing him the Tour. The clock for a rider's time trial starts with or without the rider, it is quite indifferent. LeMond gave up 1 minute, 19 seconds and the Yellow Jersey to Fignon.

Each second was a pearl beyond price as the 2 athletes, both of whom were shadows of their former selves, battled with unabated intensity.Stage 17, with the Galibier, the Croix de Fer and a finish up L'Alpe d'Huez scrambled the eggs again. Fignon had lost the closest Tour in History. Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon fought a fabulous battle that wasn't settled until LeMond won the final time trial in Paris. He was fourth in the Critérium International and sixth in the Tirreno–Adriatico. They were in good form and finally achieving good results.LeMond's recovery from his shooting accident was long and hard. It seemed that he just could not find that old magic. This must be the most famous and talked about race against the clock in the history of the sport.LeMond had done wind-tunnel testing and had perfected his riding position. His wife, Kathy, flew to Italy to give him moral support. LeMond had not won a race since his 1986 Tour de France victory.In the Giro he suffered like a dog finishing a lackluster thirty-ninth, almost an hour behind. It was in those final meters that he lost those next, oh-so-precious 10 seconds. The appointment of Jean-Marie Leblanc was one of the most important events in the history of the Tour de France. Being in second place, LeMond went before Fignon.

He had acquired a nasty saddle sore in stage 19. Somehow, he lost track of the time. Take the example of the cars used in the Tour, back … In the early season races he had done reasonably well.

Back in those days people fell for anything!

from Lemond and Fignon. This was a spectacular reversal of fortune after his previous year's dominance.The next real test was the first individual time trial in stage 5. He left the Hotel Pullman for a warm-up in the backstreets of Luxembourg … Yet, when he came on to the Champs Elysées he still had the overall lead by 2 seconds. Before first ITT Delgado was the last one in overall clasification over 7 min. The gents at memoire-du-cyclisme.net figured that at the speeds LeMond and Fignon were traveling in the final time trial, the 8 seconds in the final overall amounted to 82 meters, less than a football field after 3,257 kilometers.LeMond went on that fall to cap his season with his second World Road Championship. At a long 73 kilometers, it would really make a difference. Fignon's Super U squad won the stage, with the team finishing intact, not losing any men on the road. Fignon now had a 26 second lead over LeMond.

Leblanc's tenure coincided with the beginning of the trend of many of the finest Tour contenders making the Tour de France their only real goal for the season. LeMond could not go with the Frenchman. LeMond tried to answer, but couldn't. As defending champion from 1988, Pedro Delgado was the last to start. The riders had 2 first category climbs in front of them.

View full results of Tour de France 1989, won by Greg LeMond before Laurent Fignon (2nd) and Pedro Delgado (3rd).

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