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 - Rulon Gardner — 7 / 17

Rulon Gardner (2000) -- The Wyoming native did the unthinkable in beating the previously undefeated Russian Aleksandr Karelin to win the Greco-Roman wrestling gold medal in Sydney.

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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