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I dont know if most impressive but i'm going to give a recent example from cycling, Taylor Phinney During the USA National Road Race in 2014, he was descending lookout mountain when a motorcycle ref interfered with his line as he came into a corner. He slid out and crashed leg first into a guardrail. The result was an open compound fracture of the tibia and a severed patellar tendon in his left leg. The crash was bad enough that a cyclist on another team stopped to help. There was a real sense his career might be over at 22. Here is what his leg looked like after surgery:  Anyway, he was able to return after more than a year and actually won the USA time trial championship in 2016, though he has since retired. Basically cycling is full of riders and ridiculous injuries. In 1956, Fiorenzo Magni broke his left arm during the Giro but refused a cast and used a loving inner tube to hold himself up for leverage.  However his steering and braking was hosed, so he crashed again and broke his humerus and passed out. He woke up in the ambulance and yelled and them to stop, got back on his bike, and rejoined the race. He finished Second It turns out flying down mountains at 60+ mph in spandex is not healthy, who knew?
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