USA Cycling CEO Brendan Quirk for High Profile cover story on 09/28/2023 at his home. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Cary Jenkins)
In July 1986, Greg LeMond was on his way to becoming the first American to win the Tour de France. Half a world away in Little Rock, 16-year-old Brendan Quirk, flipping through the three or four channels on his family's TV, happened across a CBS Sports broadcast of the race.
