Originally Posted by
gaucho777
I shared a hotel hot tub with Alexi Grewal one night (no, no, it wasn't like that...) after a stage of the Whiskey Creek Stage Race. This was around '88 or '89. He kept complaining about how all the Euro pros were dopped up. He recounted how he was riding in one of the early season classics, bundled up in full winter training gear, and many the other riders were all in shorts and short-sleeved jerseys impervious to the cold. He said they even had pills to keep them warm, too. FWIW, I have absolutely no way to verify anything he said.
Ironic, considering how he won his Olympic gold medal (nice of the American officials to be incompetent and corrupt enough to let him keep it) and his recent admissions of doping through his whole career.
Maybe the fact that he's of Indian descent had something to do with his difficulty in dealing with the cold and wet compared to northern Europeans. Or maybe he's just a whinging jackass. Or both.