Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Greg LeMond was the first American winner of the Tour de France cycle race. He decided to ___(1)___ a cyclist when he was still at school and began to win a lot of prizes. LeMond missed going to the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Today he regrets having lost the ___(2)___ to win a gold medal.
LeMond won his first Tour de France in 1986 and his future seemed to be very ___(3)___ but the next year LeMond had a terrible accident. LeMond wanted to take part in the 1987 Tour de France but his doctors didn't let him leave the hospital, two years ___(4)___ he started training again. In 1989 he won the Tour de France on the last day of the race, and he was the winner again in 1990. LeMond ___(5)___ cycling in 1994 and opened a sports business with his father.