August 7
by Tony Libera
Unable to bear his role in the day’s events, Pat had suffered a nervous collapse.
The two men again attempted to lift Greg, but he was in too much pain to stand.
by CP Staff Greg LeMond's chest X-ray after the shooting courtesy of Greg LeMond The California Highway Patrol chopper had departed McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento bound for a traffic accident.
It wasn’t a racing bike, just a fat-wheeled ten-speed with straightened handlebars and a baby seat fitted to the back.
The profound weariness that had gripped him was loosening, giving way to his native restlessness.Yet Greg’s celebrated cardiopulmonary engine lay in ruin. She also noticed that Kathy’s speech was punctuated with little gasps, as if some silent pain were passing through her body every few minutes. Growing impatient, they finally decided to steer the truck up to the main gate of the sprawling ranch. Doctors had predicted a two-week hospital stay, so Greg’s prompt release was a victory in itself, sufficient, perhaps, to quash the rumors that his cycling career was finished.It was time, though, to face one cruel fact.
One evening, as an exhausted Kathy and her equally spent mother trudged along a manicured street in the LeMond’s gated community with Geoffrey in their pajamas, Sacia Morris thought, “My gosh, what has happened to us?”Greg now found his world confined to the distance between a bed and a chair, where he would sit and shake, sweat and tears running down his face, never able to find a comfortable position. Had a helicopter not magically appeared above his uncle’s ranch, he almost surely would have bled out or suffocated on the half-hour drive to the local hospital. The flight took eleven minutes. His wounded body, deprived of food, had sought protein in Greg’s thigh and calf muscles, which had wasted away.
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Two additional holes in his liver were left to heal on their own.When a terrified Kathy arrived, doctors told her that Greg would be in surgery for two hours, and that they would do all they could.
Greg was sedated, but as Kathy walked into the room he moaned, as if he sensed her soothing presence. Then he felt numbness wash over his body. Kathy sat in shock and waited. Pour parfaire sa condition physique, son entraîneur lui recommande de pratiquer le vélo.
Greg’s uncle heard Pat’s screams and ran over to join the younger men, prying the shotgun from the stunned shooter’s hands.Soon, Greg’s hunting companions had succumbed to a muddled panic, yelling at each other and trying in vain to lift Greg’s wounded body.Their hysteria calmed Greg, who had made a career of enduring pain.
“Because he’s young and in very good condition, he’ll recover,” she said.
She finally interrupted Kathy to ask, “Are you in labor?”Kathy was eight months pregnant; the due date was a few weeks away.
LeMond was an "exceptionally gifted" amateur rider who quickly established himself as one of the most talented cyclists on the professional circuit. He quietly scuttled his summer racing schedule.That fall, the LeMonds sold their California home and moved into a five-bedroom, $725,000 mansion along Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata. “It’s my best day,” he told reporters—and it was, provided one’s memory reached back no further than six days. Greg’s lungs were flooding with blood; he could barely breathe.Pat came running. by City Pages Readers The copter rerouted, touching down at 9:40 a.m., an hour after the shooting.A rescuer asked Greg his name and address. The LeMonds imported few items of their own.After a decade of competitive cycling, Greg struggled for the motivation to pedal a bicycle for hours a day in the off-season. “What happened?” Greg’s life—or, more precisely, its end—was flashing before his eyes.“I’m going to die,” he gurgled. Kathy hung up the phone and sobbed.
Greater perhaps was the danger to Greg’s damaged kidney.
She asked him to repeat it three, four times, laboring to keep him conscious. He arrived an hour later, and uncle and nephew readied for the hunt. by Daniel De Visé
His body fat, a measure of fitness, had swelled from 5 percent to 19 percent. Sacia could hear panic in her daughter’s voice. Some broadcasters in Europe interrupted their programming to announce that the great LeMond had been shot.Kathy telephoned her mother, Sacia, in La Crosse. Now the champion cyclist has regained his rank and is rebuilding his life.
The hunters slowed and split, Greg’s uncle heading off to the left, his brother-in-law to the right. Thirty more pellets had been removed from Greg’s body, some of them preserved in a plastic specimen bottle, which was later presented to the patient and became a macabre memento in the LeMond home.The shooting was news in the United States, but even bigger news abroad.
I still believe I’m better than ninety-nine percent of the other guys. Greg slipped into sleep and surgery commenced.At the LeMond home, a very pregnant Kathy was making pancakes for her son when the telephone rang.“It’s UC Davis Medical Center,” the voice said. Even before the shooting, he had veered perilously close to quitting.
August 5
She chose to stay.Kathy pleaded with the staff to let her see her husband.
He shouted back at them, “I’m going to die if you guys don’t calm down.” His companions collected themselves.Rod ran back to the house to call an ambulance, placing the call at 8:49 a.m. Then he returned. by Their plan to build a dream home in Rancho Murieta had unraveled after the shooting. He tried again to stand, and suddenly felt as if he was going to pass out. by
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