Posted on 02/16/2006 11:26:27 AM PST by JZelle
Getting involved in a hunting accident -- as either the shooter or the shootee -- is never a great career move, as our vice president is discovering. It probably cost Greg LeMond, what, two Tour de France titles? In 1986, you may recall, LeMond stunned the cycling world by becoming the first American to win the Tour. And the following spring, he stunned the cycling world again by getting riddled with shotgun pellets, 60 of them, while trying to sneak up on a turkey in California. (His brother-in-law didn't see him hiding behind a bush.) Cost LeMond two years of his competitive life -- after nearly costing him his life, period.
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