Aside from having to cope with the physical exhaustion of a full day in the saddle, riders in the Tour de France also must face up to the glare of the world's media throughout the race.
And sometimes a rider can lose the plot, as Greg LeMond did in 1993. Gary Imlach recalls a bizarre incident in which he tried to escape the media scrum by crawling under the podium - to no avail...
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