Redigerer Greg LeMond (avsnitt)

=== 1991–1994: Tilbakegang ===
LeMond vant [[Tour DuPont]] i 1992 og dette ble hans siste seier i et stort ritt. Han brøt under [[Tour de France 1992]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=1992 Tour de France – Results, stage details, photos and history|url=http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/tdf/tdf1992.html|work=1992 Tour de France|publisher=Bike Race Info|accessdate=18. januar 2013|quote=Greg LeMond, tortured with saddle sores, could take no more and abandoned.}}</ref> dels på grunn av problemer allerede før rittet startet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=LeMond|first=Greg|title=The art of peaking for the Tour de France|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/greg-lemond/the-art-of-peaking-for-the-tour-de-france-1|work=Greg LeMond Blog|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=18. januar 2013|date=2. juli 2010|quote=Imagine suffering from the worst jet lag the day before the Tour began. That's basically how I felt. I started the 1992 Tour de France more tired than I felt at any the end of any of the other Tours that I completed. I am not sure what was worse, the loss of a night's sleep or the worry over the lost sleep. Not the way to begin a Tour.}}</ref> Selv uttalte at han brøt på grunn av alvorlige problemer med gnagsår, men innrømmet også at han ikke klatret som tidligere og ikke følte seg i like bra slag som vanlig.<ref>''«My climbing is not like usual. I've climbed much better in the past Tours. This year I'm just not feeling my usual self.»'': {{Cite news|last=Brunner|first=Steven|title=CYCLING TOUR DE FRANCE : LeMond Doesn't Have the Zip|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-18/sports/sp-3474_1_greg-lemond|accessdate=18. januar 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=18. juli 1992}}</ref>

Vinteren etter trente LeMond intensivt uten at det førte til framgang i konkurranser. Under {{Ikkerød|Giro d'Italia 1993}} brøt han to dager før finaleetappen. Han lå da som tredje siste i sammenlagtkonkurransen. Senere i sesongen var han for utmattet til å starte i [[Tour de France 1993|Tour de France]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abt|first=Sam|title=LeMond Begins Uphill Grind Toward '94|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/19/sports/19iht-bike_0.html|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=18. januar 2013|date=19. november 1993|quote=A suffering LeMond withdrew from the Giro d'Italia and went home to Minnesota to mend. Then, in July, he fell while riding across a railroad track and broke the scaphoid bone in his right wrist, ending his season.}}</ref> Etter sesongslutt søkte LeMond psykologhjelp hos Adrie Van Diemen for å forbedre treningsmetodene og tok som resultat av det i bruk watt-måler for å overvåke formen.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Friebe|first=Daniel|title=Procycling talks to Greg LeMond|url=http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/procycling-talks-to-greg-lemond-13858/|publisher=ProCycling|accessdate=18. januar 2013|date=7. januar 2008|quote=I look at the number of watts I'm producing more than anything else. I'm really into quality over quantity. Adrie Van Diemen was my guide on that.|archive-date=2013-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404035723/http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/procycling-talks-to-greg-lemond-13858/|url-status=yes}}</ref> 

Tross en vinter hvor han fulgte moderne treningsmetoder, blant annet med mer styrketrening, klarte ikke LeMond å henge med de beste under [[Tour de France 1994]]. Han brøt etter første uke av rittet, før fjelletappene var begynt og annonserte i desember samme år at han han la opp. Grunnene til LeMonds problemer er ikke helt klarlagt, selv oppgav han {{Ikkerød|mitokondriell myopati}}{{#tag:ref|Mitokondriell myopati er en tilstand der [[Mitokondrium|mitokondriene]] brytes ned slik at musklene ikke får tilstrekkelig energi.|group=N}} som årsak.<ref>"Greg LeMond Ending Career," Samuel Abt, ''International Herald Tribune,'' December 3, 1994</ref> I 2007 spekulerte han i om grunnen kunne være en kombinasjon av [[overtrening]] og [[blyforgiftning]] fra de 35 blyhaglene han gikk med i kroppen.<ref>Procycling, January 2008, appeared December 2007</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0627/1224249651626.html |title=Even Relentless Fighter Now Sees Cycling as a Lost Cause |author=Ian O'Riordon |date=6. juni 2009 |work=The Irish Times |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022153911/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2009/0627/1224249651626.html |archivedate=2012-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Fil:Greg Lemond Alpe D'Huez.jpg|mini|LeMond på en karbonsykkel under [[Tour de France 1991]]]]
LeMond regnet med at den økende [[Erytropoietin|EPO]]-bruken i sykkelsporten bidro til manglende framgang. Han uttalte at syklingen hadde endret seg, hastighetene var økt og han var blitt sjanseløs mot syklister han tidligere slo greit.<ref>''«Something had changed in cycling. The speeds were faster and riders that I had easily out performed were now dropping me. At the time, the team I was on, Team Z, became more and more demanding, more and more concerned&nbsp;...»'': {{Cite web|last=LeMond|first=Greg|title=The art of peaking for the Tour de France|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/greg-lemond/the-art-of-peaking-for-the-tour-de-france-1|work=Greg LeMond Blog|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|accessdate=18. januar 2013|date=22. juli 2010|quote=From all outside appearances, one might believe there was some reason for concern. The reality was that my ability and desire had not changed.}}</ref> Videre fortalte han at den belgiske legen Yvan Van Mol i 1994 fortalte at det ikke var noe galt med ham, men at han måtte kontakte {{Ikkerød|Michele Ferrari}} om han ønsket å fortsette å vinne. LeMond nektet imidlertid å  [[bloddoping|bloddope seg]]; siden han hadde det høyeste oksygenopptaket mente han at han burde kunne slå hvem som helst, men det viste seg å ikke være riktig lengre.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gifford |first=Bill |title=Greg LeMond vs. The World |url=http://archive.mensjournal.com/greg-lemond-vs-the-world |publisher=Men's Journal |accessdate=18. januar 2013 |date=30. juni 2008 |quote=At the time, he blamed himself&nbsp;... LeMond trained harder than he ever had in his life and changed his diet, but nothing worked&nbsp;... Finally he went to see a Belgian doctor named Yvan Van Mol. " 'There's nothing wrong with you, Greg,' " LeMond says the doctor told him. " 'If you're going to compete today, you've got to go see Ferrari.' "&nbsp;... But LeMond refused: Greg LeMond didn't need anything the Italian doctor could provide. He had the highest VO2 max, and he could still beat everyone. Except he couldn't. In 1994 he struggled to keep up on the flat stages&nbsp;... |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113015653/http://archive.mensjournal.com/greg-lemond-vs-the-world |archivedate=2013-01-13 |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2013-01-18 |arkivurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113015653/http://archive.mensjournal.com/greg-lemond-vs-the-world |arkivdato=2013-01-13 |url-status=død }} {{Kilde www |url=http://archive.mensjournal.com/greg-lemond-vs-the-world |tittel=Arkivert kopi |besøksdato=2013-01-18 |arkiv-dato=2013-01-13 |arkiv-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113015653/http://archive.mensjournal.com/greg-lemond-vs-the-world |url-status=unfit }}</ref> LeMond la ikke all skyld på den økende dopingbruken i sykkelsporten, men fortalte i 1999 at etter jaktulykken var han utslitt stort sett hele tiden.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abt|first=Sam|title=LeMond Glances Backward From the Top of Alpe d'Huez|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/19/sports/19iht-lemond.2.t.html|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=18. januar 2013|date=19. juli 1999|quote=LeMond always did like to have a good time, to enjoy the food and wine along the way to winning the Tour de France three times, in 1986, '89 and '90. He might have won a few more but — in a similarity to Lance Armstrong's diagnosis of cancer in 1996 — lost more than a season after he was shot and nearly killed in a hunting accident in 1987.}}</ref>