Saul Raisin
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Saul Raisin |
| Born |
January 6, 1983  United States
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Crédit Agricole |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2005–2007 | Crédit Agricole |
Saul Raisin (born January 6, 1983 in Dalton, Georgia) is an American former professional road bicycle racer with UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole.
Raisin began racing mountain bikes at 13, and moved to road bikes when he was 17.
Raisin had a good start to his professional career with Crédit Agricole in 2005, coming 37th in the Tour de Suisse, later having the best result of his career with a 13th place in the Int. Österreich-Rundfahrt (or Tour of Austria). He then went on to win the King of the Mountains jersey in the Tour de l'Avenir.
In early 2006 Raisin won the third stage of the Le Tour de Langkawi and ended the Malaysian Tour placed eleventh overall. In 2003 Saul won Best Young Rider at the Tour de Georgia. At the 2006 Tour of California Raisin came 17th overall. He raced the Milan–San Remo in March and on April 4 was racing in the first stage of the Circuit de la Sarthe. Two kilometres from the finish Raisin clipped a wheel, crashed and landed on his head, breaking his clavicle and hip.
At the hospital in Angers, France, doctors took hourly CAT scans which showed that an intracranial hemorrhage had formed in Raisin's brain. A neurosurgeon operated to relieve the pressure and had to remove part of Raisin's right temporal lobe, though Raisin's autobiography contradicts this. Raisin went into a coma, emerging six days later. The hemorrhage and surgery caused significant weakness on his left side and marked memory loss. When he was stabilized he was flown from France to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He stayed in the hospital for four weeks, going through extensive therapy - including re-learning to walk and eat. Afterwards he continued his therapy at the Shepherd Center outpatient program, Pathways.
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