1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Gregory James LeMond (referred to in this section as Greg ) was born in Lakewood, California, on June 26, 1961. (2) Greg began cycling at 14 years of age, winning an astonishing 11 straight races to begin his career. (3) At the 1979 Junior World Championships, Greg took home a full suite of medals, including gold, silver, and bronze, emerged victorious in the road race, and placed in both team and track pursuit events. (4) At 18 years of age, Greg became the youngest cyclist in the history of the sport to be selected for the United States Men’s Olympic team. (5) Greg emerged victorious in the 1980 Circuit de la Sarthe, becoming the first individual from the United States, and the youngest rider ever, to win a major pro-am cycling event on the European continent. (6) At 19 years of age, Greg signed his first professional contract. (7) In 1982, Greg made the first of several remarkable recoveries, returning from a broken collarbone to win the silver medal at the World Championships in Great Britain. (8) The Tour de France, the world’s preeminent cycling competition, was first held more than a century ago, in 1903. (9) The Tour de France takes place over 23 days, covers an extraordinary 2,200 miles, winds through multiple mountain ranges, spans multiple nations, and is viewed as comparable to running a marathon every day for 3 consecutive weeks. (10) Greg first competed in the Tour de France in 1984, when he finished third, and finished second the following year, but, in both years, he deputized himself to his teammates by sacrificing a chance to win himself to boost those teammates toward victory. (11) Greg emerged victorious in the 1986 Tour de France, ascending the fabled Alpe D’Huez, defeating the field by more than 3 full minutes, and becoming the first individual from the United States, and the first non-European, to win cycling’s most prestigious race. (12) In 1987, while