While it's far too soon to say if French fans' hopes that the country's lengthy quest for a successor to former greats like Bernard Hinault and Laurent Fignon will finally be fulfilled, Martinez's ...

Partly because of the hair’s-breadth winning margin by which US rider Greg LeMond beat home hope Laurent Fignon, the fabled eight seconds, but also because of the manner in which he did it ...

Simon Warren has been obsessed with cycling since the summer of 1989 after watching Greg Lemond battle Laurent Fignon in the Tour de France. A few weeks later he rode his first race, a 10-mile ...