Olympians Who Overcame

Another Hungarian, armed force sergeant Karoly Takacs, was one of the world's top gun shooters until an inadequate projectile blasted amid a preparation exercise and for all time damaged his right hand. Unafraid, he carefully figured out how to shoot similarly well with his left, astounding everybody—who thought he had just appeared to watch—by winning the Hungarian national gun shooting title in 1939, only a year after the mishap. Takacs stayed in top shape even as the following two Olympics were drop because of World War II. At the point when the diversions continued in 1948, he set a world record and guaranteed gold in the quick shoot gun occasion. He then lined that up with a second gold decoration at the 1952 amusements before completing eighth at his last Olympics in 1956. Taking after an adolescence streetcar mishap reminiscent of Eyser's, Oliver Halassy had his left leg severed beneath the knee. He regardless turned into a pillar of the powerhouse Hungarian water polo group, gathering a silver award at the 1928 Olympics and after that consecutive golds in 1932 and 1936. (In one diversion alone, a victory of Japan, he scored seven objectives.) A champion free-form swimmer and in addition a water polo player, Halassy was after death enlisted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.