LeMond Cycling, Inc. v. Trek Bicycle Corporation

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LeMond Cycling, Inc. v. Trek Bicycle Corporation

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LeMond not sure Armstrong's clean
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Posted: 26 minutes ago

Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond suggested he's not convinced Lance Armstrong is so clean.
"Lance is ready to do anything to keep his secret," LeMond told France's Le Monde newspaper in an interview published Thursday.
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don't know how he can continue to convince everybody of his innocence," the daily quoted Lemond as saying. Fellow American LeMond who won the Tour in 1986, 1989 and 1990.

Armstrong, who has won five Tours and is seeking a record sixth crown, has repeatedly denied doping accusations.

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This is not the first time Le Monde newspaper has leveled doping accusations against Armstrong, and his team manager Johan Bruyneel said he wasn't surprised.
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"There's nothing we can do to counter it," Bruyneel said.

Armstrong entered the Tour shadowed by a new book, "L.A. Confidential, The Secrets of Lance Armstrong," that insinuates he probably has used drugs. The French-language book by journalists Pierre Ballester and David Walsh hit stores less than three weeks before the start of the race.
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By Joe Lindsey, Contributing Writer July 15, 2004 in what is the closest any Amedcan has come to directly accusing Lance Armstrong of using performance-enhancing substances, three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond publicly questioned Armstrong's cleanliness, saying that denials and negative tests were not clear proof that he is dean. "Everybody says that," LeMond said in an interview pdnted today in the French daily newspaper Le Monde. "But neither had David Millar tested positive and he now admits he took EPO." Millar, formedy of the Cofidis team, was taken into custody last month when a police search of his home turned up vials of Eprex, a form of EPO. His lawyer acknowledged that Millar admits to having used EPO three times in his career. Milar had previously denied all allegations of drug use, calling his accuser, former teammate Philippe Gaumont, a "nutter" and pointing out that he had never failed a drug test. LeMond has publicly questioned Armstrong before. In 2001, when London Times writer David Walsh revealed that Armstrong was consulting with Dr. Michele Ferrad, who is currently on tdal in Italy for allegedly helping cyclists dope, LeMond was characteristically blunt. "If it's true, then [Armstrong's Tour wins] are the greatest fraud in cycling," he said at the time. Armstrong, reportedly non-plussed by LeMond's comments, had a phone conversation with Greg that is recounted in Walsh's new book, "LA Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong" currently on newsstands in France. In the book, LeMond's wife Kathy tells Walsh of the conversation, in which Armstrong pressures LeMond to admit to taking EPO himself; Greg denies ever having used the drug. Le Monde, a dally published in the southern part of France, has been a dogged pursuer of doping scandals, its report last week that some dders in the Tour remain under investigation for doping led to the rest-day expulsion of Martin Hvastija and Stefano Casagranda. And in 1999, when it was revealed Armstrong tested positive for a corticosteroid after denying it, he had a tense exchange at a press conference with a Le Monde reporter who asked him whether he was truthful in his denial or if he had used a corticoid. "So, Mr. Le Monde," Armstrong shot back, "Are you calling me a liar, or are you calling me a doper?." Armstrong's team produced a medical cedificate for the product, a topical cream, and he was never sanctioned. In LA Confidential, Walsh asserts, through former Postal soigneur Emma O'Reilly, that the certificate was produced after the fact as a cover. In his strongest words yet, LeMond blasted Armstrong, saying, 'q'he problem with Lance is that you're either a liar or

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you're out to destroy cycling," he told Le Monde, referring to how Armstrong reacts to riders like Filippo SimeoN, Chdstophe Bassons or Jesus Manzano, who acknowledge doping in the sport. "Lance is ready to do anything to keep his secret but I donff know how long he can convince everybody of his innocence." Simeoni has sued Armstrong for slander, saying that Armstrong damaged his reputation by calling Simeoni a liar when he testified against Ferrad at the doctor's last tdal. LeMond dismissed criticisms that he is jealous of Armstrong, who has won two more Tours than him and stands to become the first-ever to win six. "Because of all that has occurred in the past 10 years," he said, referencing dopJng, "that does not have the same value as the five Tours of Hinault, for example." As of press time, Armstrong had not yet responded to the comments. -With AFP Reports

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by seilrchIng hls room like that, I would be,breaklng the JlmIts." It Is not a secret where teams A Tour boÒk lists each stay, team's hotel ,for each night. But It Is unusual for riders to give interviews at the hotel on the mOmlng before the stage beØnsAlso Thursday, an article In the French newspaper La Monde quoted LeMond as strongly crttlclzlng Armstrong's denials of drilguse. "The prohlem with Lance Is that you're either a liar or you're out to destroy cycIIng," LeMond was quoted as saylng. "Limce Is ready to do anythlng to keep hls long I si!)lret but don't know hoW he can convince evetybD;dY ofhls

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Innocence: Armstrong has had a, contentious relationship with the French press In the past Two years ago, he held an emotional nèws conference In the middle of the Tour denying doping allegations, expressing sadness that French Cans were yelIlnll' "Dope" at him and defendlng hls relationship with Italian physician Michele Ferrari, who has been the target of Italian investigations Into doping.

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strong was content He also said he was looldng forward bOth to today's stage 122.5 mlIes li'om Castelsamlsln to La Mongle that tlnlshas with a daunting elght-mOe clli)1b to the tInIsh and even more to Saturday's 13th stage that tlnlshas high up In the mountains at PIa,
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