Rabbit Holes: Who shot Greg LeMond?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In the arc of a life – especially one as rich and eventful as Greg LeMond's - certain stories get lost to the grander narrative. But in 1987, the bigger story was still unwritten. That year – soon after he'd won his first Tour de France, in the prime of his career – Greg LeMond was shot, and almost died.
A Grand Tour champion, violence, drugs, intrigue, rehabilitation, and redemption: this is that story.
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Production and sound design by Will and Stuart at Redbricks Media. Music from EpidemicSound. Thanks to Chris Marshall-Bell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to our brand new podcast, Rabbit Holes. |
| 0:04.8 | Now, because this is the first show, we're running it across a few different Escape Collective feeds, |
| 0:10.4 | so lots of you will get a chance to hear it. |
| 0:12.8 | But if you want to hear future episodes, you'll need to head over and subscribe to the Rabbit Holes podcast channel. |
| 0:19.9 | We'll link it in the show notes below, or you can |
| 0:21.8 | search something like Rabbit Holes Escape or whatever. Just make sure you don't accidentally |
| 0:26.4 | subscribe to the five-year-old New York Times podcast called Rabbit Hole, because, firstly, we're |
| 0:31.3 | looking down more than one rabbit hole, and secondly, I'm pretty sure there's more bikes involved |
| 0:35.4 | in ours. But it'll be worth it, I promise. This is a good one. |
| 0:39.5 | We're really happy with how it turned out. So please sign up and enjoy the show. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the first episode, hopefully not the last, of a new thing that we're |
| 0:55.9 | trying at Escape Collective. This is the Escape Collective Rabbit Hole podcast. My name's Ian Trulaw |
| 1:01.8 | and I'm joined by Johnny Long. Hello, Johnny. Hello, Ian. This is all rather exciting. |
| 1:07.0 | It is, yeah. I feel like we've been sort of circling the drain on this one for a little while. |
| 1:13.1 | We've tried a few different podcast products together. We did a Tangents podcast, a couple of |
| 1:18.5 | episodes of that. And that was fun. But I think we've gone away and we've refined it and we've |
| 1:24.3 | come back with a not a tighter product but maybe a more sprawling |
| 1:29.3 | one but sprawling in one direction. If only we'd known 12 to 18 months ago that all it would |
| 1:34.8 | take to get it greenlit was to give it a title related to nature and not to cycling to get it |
| 1:40.6 | past Mr. Frats. Well this is the thing. We don't actually know if this is a good title. |
| 1:44.5 | We've sort of just been cornered by by schedules into recording before we've actually |
| 1:49.6 | come up with anything half decent. |
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