Video: Watch fantastic moment between legends Kelly & LeMond

The respect and warmth of the greeting between former champions Greg LeMond and Sean Kelly is absolutely brilliant to see.

 

Okay, we're a little bit late with this clip but it was so good we thought we'd share it, even a week after it was recorded just before the end of the Tour de France.

Giants of the pro game and intense rivals in their day, Greg LeMond and Sean Kelly are now the back bone of Eurosport's coverage of cycling and when they met up on the Tour the warmth of the embrace between the duo was awesome.

Kelly, of course, won everything he wanted to win except the two really big ones; the Tour de France and the world title.

 

Giants of The Road: Kelly was thrilled to see LeMond and have the banter; though he was perhaps not as much into kissing as Greg!

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And while LeMond won the Tour three times and the Worlds twice, the longevity of Kelly and is mental and physical toughness mean his name is carved just as deep in the annals of pro cycling as his American former rival turned colleague.

In the clip below they meet up to discuss old times and LeMond wonders whether Kelly could agree to give him one of his Paris-Roubaix titles in exchange for a world title so that the holes in their palmares could be patched up a little.

In this little clip you are looking at men who have not only lived in interesting times; they shaped those times and they were head and shoulders above everyone else in their pomp.

In a sport perhaps too keen to bestow the title of 'legend' on riders; these men have earned the respect they still receive decades on from their last races.

And it's fantastic to see the genuine warm regard they have for each other after all these years.

 

LeMond meets Kelly on Le Tour

 

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