Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
By badgering his own team mate and having his DS lie to get Lemond to slow down.
That's ONE that, by all rights, Hinault should have lost.
Nonsense and rubbish. Myths perpetrated by the Lemond camp. What was Koechli going to do? Let Lemond ride away with Roche and risk both first and second place overall? Hinault had nothing to do with it. In any case, Lemond was only within spitting distance of the lead because Hinault let him jump away on the day he crashed at St Ettienne.
Hinault was the best rider in the race by far and without his accident would have won by more.