By Cher Dial Robert Vehe, Olympic Cyclist, 1976 The Plumfund Story: An Unexpected Tragedy Little did my partner Bob know that when he walked out the door that September morning that he would come face to face with death. Last September, Bob Vehe was in his van, parked in front of a client's house, when he heard something pop in his chest. Bob, a 61-year-old former Olympic cyclist from Lino Lakes, Minn., thought he was having a heart attack. As it turns out, the pop he heard was the sound of his aortic wall tearing, which was the precursor of a larger aortic rupture that he would soon suffer, leading to multiple...
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