Personal Life
LeMond attended Wooster High School in Reno, NV. His parents are Bob LeMond and Bertha (d. 2006), and he has two sisters, Kathy and Karen. LeMond is married to Kathy Morris, and together they have three children - two sons (Geoffrey and Scott) and a daughter (Simone). LeMond and his wife live in Medina, Minnesota, United States. As an ADHD-sufferer and victim of sexual abuse, LeMond supports charities associated with these topics, and he and his wife Kathy both sit on the board of the non-profit 1in6.
After retiring from professional cycling, LeMond competed in Formula Ford 2000 series auto racing. In the 1990's he created a restaurant called Tour de France on France Avenue in a retail district of Edina, Minnesota. More recently, he was the guest speaker for Sumitomo Drive Technologies' International Sales Meeting in Cancun, Mexico on May 2, 2008. In 2008, LeMond narrated an award-winning documentary for Adventures for the Cure.
In 2007 LeMond rode the L'Étape du Tour (an amateur cycling event linked with the Tour de France) along with his son, after being inspired by his son riding it previously. LeMond said "I had the time of my life", despite getting "650th place" and being "impressed that I even finished". "I decided that day that nobody's going to keep me from cycling, not Trek, not Armstrong, not Verbruggen, not anybody."
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