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- most courageous athletes
- in history. As he prepared
- to defend his title in 1987,
- Greg broke his wrist in a
- pileup in a European race.
- He was about to return to competitive cycling
- when he was accidentally shot by his brother-
- in-law while hunting. Greg suffered severe
- internal injuries and almost died. When he
- finally recovered, he had to undergo an
- emergency appendectomy, and then was
- sidelined by an infection in his right shin.
-
- Greg set his mind on competing in the Tour
- de France in 1989, but nobody expected him
- to win. Going into the final stage of the race,
- he trailed but he never gave up, and he
- won the race by just eight seconds. A
- few weeks later, he won the world
-