“I don’t want to say that I am the greatest, because I feel, I’ve said it before, it’s disrespectful towards all the great champions in different eras of our sport that was played in completely different way than it is played today,” he said. He became the first man to win all four tennis majors at least three times, joining three women who did so ( Serena Williams, Steffi Graf and Margaret Court). “I’m obviously overwhelmed with most beautiful emotions at the moment but also huge relief because so much tension, so much intensity, so much, I guess, pressure and expectations.”ĭjokovic also broke Nadal’s record as the oldest French Open singles champion. “I waited for this moment and worked really, really hard to eventually get a shot at the historic Grand Slam title,” he said. He began his victory speech in French, saying it was special to break the record at the major that has been the most difficult for him to win. Favorite us! Follow Djokovic won the French Open for his 23rd Grand Slam singles title, breaking the men’s record he shared with Rafael Nadal, a record that he may now own for a very long time.ĭjokovic, a 36-year-old from Serbia, beat Norwegian Casper Ruud 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 in Sunday’s final at Roland Garros. He retired in 1994, two years before the first Olympics with men’s professional road cyclists. He then turned professional, which at the time meant he could not compete in Olympic road racing. LeMond would have competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics at age 19 if not for the U.S. He was the first non-European to win the Grand Tour and remains the lone American to win it after Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis’ titles were stripped for doping. LeMond won the Tour de France in 1986, 19. LeMond, 60, said he will change plans and not attend the Tour de France next month but looks forward to returning in 2023. The long-term prognosis is very favorable.” “I should be feeling better in a few weeks and for the near future, my daily schedule will be altered only a little and I have been told that in a few months, I should be in remission. “No one ever wants to hear the word cancer but, admittedly, there is great relief, now, to know why I was feeling poorly,” he wrote, citing a few weeks of fatigue that prompted a check-up. Greg LeMond, a three-time Tour de France champion and the first American to win the stage race, has been diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia and said it is not life threatening, according to his website.
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