Alexi Grewal

Alexi Grewal medal table
Cyclist
United States
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1984	Single road race

Alexi Singh Grewal (born  September 8, 1960 in Aspen , Colorado ) is a retired American cyclist .

In 1983 he started at the UCI Road World Championships and was classified 14th in the amateur road race . This was the first season he had spent in Europe with races such as the British Milk Race and the Tour de l'Avenir . He won the gold medal in the individual road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . He covered the distance of 190 kilometers in four hours, 59 minutes and 57 seconds and prevailed against Steve Bauer from Canada , who was second at the same time, and the Norwegian Dag Otto Lauritzen in the sprint . Before the games, he was suspended by the American Cycling Association for 30 days after the substance phenethylamine , which is found in medicines for hay fever and colds , had been detected in his urine . He did not deny the ingestion, but attributed it to a mistake in the selection of drugs. The ban was lifted a few days before the Olympic race following an appeal by the United States Olympic Committee .

After his Olympic victory, he switched to the professionals and drove first for the Panasonic team in 1985 and from 1986 for the 7-Eleven team . He was released from this in the same year because he spat on a CBS camera during the Tour de France after the cameraman got too close to him during the race. After contracts with the RMO (1987, France) and Crest (1988, USA) teams , he then drove for the American team Coors Light from 1989 until the end of his career in 1993 . During his time as a professional, he won several important races in the United States. His Olympic champion bike is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History .

In an essay published on April 15, 2008 in the cycling magazine VeloNews , he admitted repeated knowledgeable doping with stimulants such as ephedrine during his career, but without commenting directly on his Olympic victory.

Alexi Grewal was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2004 , but excluded again in 2016 for his doping offenses.

Web links

• Alexi Grewal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Alexi Grewal in the Radsportseiten.net database

References and comments

1. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. (Ed.): Velo . Dendermonde 1984, p. 131 .
2. ↑ VeloNews of April 3, 2008: An essay by 1984 Olympic gold medalist Alexi Grewal
3. ↑ Anthony Costello: Inductees Removed Due to Ethical Violations. (No longer available online.) In: usbhof.org. September 1, 2016, archived from the original on April 18, 2017 ; accessed on May 24, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.