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TIL former WWE wrestler Kurt Angle fractured two vertebrae during the 1996 Olympic Trials, herniating two discs and pulling four muscles, but still went on to win the trials and five months later take home the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympics.

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