TIL An American gymnast with a wooden leg won six medals, including three gold, in a single day at the 1904 Olympics. He was the only Olympian to have competed with a prosthetic limb for the next 100 years, until 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eyser



Submitted March 24, 2015 at 07:22PM by texanwill http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/304qha/til_an_american_gymnast_with_a_wooden_leg_won_six/