[JaredL]

Gila,

I have a man crush on Heras so I'm probably overly biased. Certainly that one tour would have been a lot more interesting had he been on a different team, although again it would have been about the same in the GC because he is so much worse than Lance in the ITT.

I didn't watch back then as I was only 5 but the 1985 La Vie Claire team was amazing. They had Bernard Hinault who won, LeMond finished second, Steve Bauer finished 10th, Niki Ruttimann 13th, Dominique Arnaud 22nd, and a few lower placed finishers. Having your fifth best rider finish the tour 22nd position is pretty amazing not to mention going 1-2 on the podium.

edit: Also, the gap between LeMond and the third place guy was pretty reasonable at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. LeMond said after the tour that he would have won but he sat up on a stage when he was told, a lie apparently, that Hinault was just behind him when he was really a few minutes back. Not sure what to make of it as LeMond has shown himself to be an ass and say whatever would, by his logic, make him look better.