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I don't think that Trek has ever apologised for how they treated former TdF winner Greg LeMond. > "for years, Greg LeMond has done and said things that have da

• walrus01 6y ago
  Yes exactly. They rode that Armstrong/livestrong/US postal/discovery team pony for as long as they could, as hard as they could, as long as it kept selling bikes and provided a huge benefit to the bottom line. Trek also managed to take the brand name licensed to them by one of the people who can reasonably lay claim to the title of "inventor of the mountain bike", Gary Fisher, and run it into the ground. Other major brands are almost as bad. Giant was the sponsor for the T-Mobile team of the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s in the Jan Ullrich era, which was just as rife with organized doping. They knew full well about the doping allegations (also all later proven and admitted by the team members once retired) and did nothing as long as the financial figures looked good. Every single sponsor of the uci protour teams from 1990 to about 2015 knew how absolutely ingrained systemic doping and cheating was, and continued to funnel money into the western European Continental cycling races and team corporations.