[11] ABC's coverage of the 1982 Great American Bicycle Race wound up garnering an Emmy[12] for the Best Sports Documentary.
[14] For their final year of covering the event (1986), ABC aired the Race Across America on Wide World of Sports as a single two-hour program.
[20] In 1989, Sam Posey was brought in as part of the ABC Sports broadcast team covering the Tour de France.
ABC's standard format[22] for broadcasting the Tour de France consisted of a 12-minute report on behalf of Wide World of Sports on Saturdays and then, 1+1⁄2 hours worth of coverage the following afternoon.
At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Al Michaels[28] provided the play-by-play commentary for the road cycling[29] events alongside Greg LeMond and Eric Heiden.