The widow of an athlete who suffered a medical emergency while competing in the Galveston Ironman Triathlon has launched a private investigation. FOX 26s Damaging Keith reports the family is looking to find out exactly how he died.
GALVESTON, Texas – The widow of an athlete who suffered a medical emergency while competing in the Galveston Ironman Triathlon, and later died, has now launched a private investigation.
According to Jean-Francois Alain’s family, he didn’t have any known health problems. They want this independent investigation, not only to find why and how he died but also to determine if there was an issue with the emergency response during the Galveston Ironman Triathlon two Sundays ago, on April 7.
“We want to understand. His sons want to understand because we don’t know the whole story here,” says his widow Veronique Tremblay.
There are a lot of questions from the two teen sons and his widow after Alain, a Canadian, came here to Texas to compete in the Galveston Ironman Triathlon.
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“We were so proud of him. He was in his best shape ever,” Tremblay says, but during Galveston’s half Ironman triathlon earlier this month, in the 1.2-mile swim, Alain raised his hand, signaling he needed help.
“We’ve had quite a few folks reach out to give us an understanding of what they saw,” explains Attor
ney Will Moye.
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