TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jul/31/olympicgames2008.athletics



Submitted April 19, 2015 at 08:14AM by garglemymarbles http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3339vv/til_betty_robinson_an_olympic_runner_was_involved/