The American former pro crashed en route to a dental appointment in nearby Wayzata and injured his back. 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. by August 6 Greg wondered where the other men were hiding. at 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. “It’s my best day,” he told reporters—and it was, provided one’s memory reached back no further than six days. Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Now they would live within a short drive of Kathy’s in La Crosse.Greg and Kathy felt a bit like kids living in a grown-up’s home. It was the day after Easter. Two hours stretched to three, and hospital staff told her nothing.Reporters began to trickle in. Greg LeMond, 745 Anillo Way, Rancho Murieta, California, 9-5-6-8-3, and don’t ask me again.”Greg was loaded onto the helicopter, which regained the air and flew twenty-five miles southwest to the University of California at Davis, whose hospital specialized in traumatic injury. Hospital staff then rolled him into the prep room and sponged him down for surgery. After a moment of confusion, he glanced at his left hand and saw blood. Their mothers slept on cots in the living room. He convalesced in one room, Kathy in another. Forty minutes had now passed since the shooting. Put together, those metrics suggested Greg had lost perhaps one-third of his muscle. 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. LeMond was an "exceptionally gifted" amateur rider who quickly established himself as one of the most talented cyclists on the professional circuit. August 5 The flight took eleven minutes. My prime years are yet to come.”Greg would complete his unprecedented comeback two years later, winning the 1989 Tour de France by the narrowest margin in history. They had purchased the house, along with all the furnishings, from a contractor. Geoffrey, Greg’s three-year-old son, came to visit. August 6 Maybe it’s not so bad, he thought. Whoever wasn’t watching Greg would mind Geoffrey. After a time, Pat became disoriented and began to whistle, hoping his fellow hunters would respond in kind, so that he could discern their location. He rode it around the garage of his suburban home, his chest heaving from the effort. Their plan was to pad haltingly across the prairie in pursuit of their quarry.Greg was an experienced hunter; his brother-in-law was not. He had lost nearly half of the blood in his body. in LeMond lies in his hospital bed after being blasted with more than 100 shotgun pellets.As her husband lay wounded in the hospital, Kathy LeMond, eight months pregnant, went into premature labor.Greg LeMond winning the World Championship road race in 1989, after the shooting.Greg LeMond in LeMond Bicycles’ North Loop offices in 2014 Aug. 9, 2020 July 8 Now the champion cyclist has regained his rank and is rebuilding his life. August 5 Rapidement sans rivaux dans un pays où le vélo n'est pas un sport majeur, il décide de faire ses preuves en Europe où il se fixe des objectifs très ambitieux. His body fat, a measure of fitness, had swelled from 5 percent to 19 percent. “Because he’s young and in very good condition, he’ll recover,” she said. by CP Staff 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. AMERICAN cyclist Greg LeMond, winner of three Tours de France, suffered a back injury and was hospitalised after a car accident.Former Tour de France champion Greg LeMond was injured in a car accident.AMERICAN cyclist Greg LeMond, winner of three Tours de France, suffered a back injury and was hospitalised after a car accident near his home in Minnesota, website Velonation reported today.The 51-year-old former world champion has no memory of the accident, which occurred on Tuesday while he was driving to the dentist in icy weather, according to the news site.His wife Kathy said he will probably have to wear a corset for three months but should recover fully. It wasn’t a racing bike, just a fat-wheeled ten-speed with straightened handlebars and a baby seat fitted to the back. by Aug. 9, 2020 Their plan to build a dream home in Rancho Murieta had unraveled after the shooting. Dr. Beal knew that to remove them all would harm his vital organs. He was about to return to Europe, to rejoin the peloton and resume preparations to defend his 1986 title in the Tour de France, the first victory by an American in that great race.In ordinary circumstances, Greg would have been in Europe already. by Daniel De Visé August 6 LeMond came back from nearly dying in a hunting accident, then doubling down to rally from a 50-second deficit to French great Laurent Fignon … A month earlier, Greg broke his hand in a crash at a race in Italy. He was allowed pain medications every four hours; the fourth hour was torture.Greg’s body was covered with scars. The perforations in his small intestine had leached waste, inviting infection.