Greg LeMond's incredible comeback! Here it is! American Greg LeMond's stunning final day comeback to win the closet Tour de France in history. Edited from over sixty hours of French television coverage, this 90 minute highlight video covers all 23 days of cycling's greatest race. Follow the fortunes of LeMond, Laurent Fignon and Pedro Delgado across 2000 miles of beautiful French countryside as they battle for the yellow jersey. Experience once again the breathtaking finish that no one but LeMond thought possible. This is the greatest cycling story of all time, a story of great inspiration and sports drama. "If miracles happen, this was one" - Velo News. 90 minutes.
Strengths: What's not to like about this video? It shows the comeback of an early American cycling hero. You will want to cheer out loud while watching the final day of this TDF....A time trial on the Champs. Spectacular! A record that still stands to this day!
Bottom Line:
Actually, it's an outstanding video. For Lemond fans, it chronicles his second TDF victory.
Strengths: Quality sound/picture and all stages are covered.
Weaknesses: Phil Liggett's commentary puts you to sleep. There are no interviews and it takes the most exciting race in TDF history and makes it dull. The only reason to buy this is it shows one of LeMond's stage victories which the television broadcast didn't show. Other than that, just find a copy taped from the televsion broadcast. It's much better.
Bottom Line:
I was disappointed with this video. Having a few collections of videos taped from the television which were low quality because they were tapes from tapes, I never watch the high quality version I bought. It is so canned and polished there is no life in it. I was not at all excited watching this. Stages are very brief and commentary is dull.
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