Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIf you believe Eric Lamaze, which fewer and fewer people do, the Olympic champion was given two hours to live in 2020 before he absconded from the hospital and went home to recover on his own. His vitals were failing, he says; the bleeding ulcer in his stomach was the largest the doctors had ever seen. As he left, his story goes, the needles were still in his arm.“I told my cleaning lady, ‘Put the TV as loud as you can and throw a buc
Tony Gentile/ReutersIf there were a gold medal for stupid ideas, Olympic champion showjumper Eric Lamaze might now be standing atop the podium.According to legal filings submitted in Canadian civil court, in July, Lamaze sought to delay litigation over a disputed horse sale by claiming that he was suffering from metastatic brain cancer. But the plaintiffs’ attorneys didn’t believe him, alleging that he had made similar misrepresentations four years ago. When the court examined Lamaze’s supposed