Greatest comebacks in Olympic history

POSTED: 12:24 PM PDT Jul 18, 2012 UPDATED: 06:52 AM PDT Jul 20, 2012

These athletes amazed and inspired us with some of the most courageous and unbelievable comebacks in Olympic history.

Olympic Comebacks - Tenley Albright — 14 / 17

Tenley Albright (1956) -- Injured when her skate blade sliced open her right foot weeks before the Cortina Games, Albright's father stitched her back together and she healed in time to claim the first individual gold in figure skating for an American woman.

Olympic Comebacks - Generic

Olympic Comebacks - Paul Hamm

Olympic Comebacks - Lasse Viren

Olympic Comebacks - 1980 hockey

Olympic Comebacks - 2008 swimming

Olympic Comebacks - Dave Wottle

Olympic Comebacks - Rulon Gardner

Olympic Comebacks - Kerri Strugg

Olympic Comebacks - Dan Jansen

Olymipc Comebacks - Oksana Baiul

Olympic Comebacks - Apolo Ohno

Olympic Comebacks - US Softball

Olympic Comebacks - Laura Wilkinson

Olympic Comebacks - Tenley Albright

Olympic Comebacks - Billy Mills

Olympic Comebacks - Carl Lewis

Olympic Comebacks - Sarah Hughes

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