American runner Betty Robinson made her name in gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, becoming the first woman to win the 100-meter race in Olympic history, and the youngest ever, at the age of 16. Remarkably, she accomplished this feat with two left shoes, after she was unable to obtain a shoe for her right foot moments before the start of the race. Robinson was later dubbed the “Olympic heroine who came back from the dead” after her death was announced in 1931, following a plane crash. However, the undertaker at the time realized that she was still breathing, and returned her to the hospital, where she remained in a coma for several weeks, due to serious head injuries and broken feet.
After a long two-year treatment period, Robinson returned to training, thanks to her determination despite her inability to bend her knee, and wrote a new history of Olympic glory, after winning the gold medal in the (4X100 meters) race at the 1934 Berlin Games, as it was the only race that did not require her to kneel on the ground on the starting line.
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