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Injuries can happen in sports at any time. While she was competing in the 1979 World Championships, Nadia cut her wrist on her metal grip buckle by accident. She was immediately taken to the hospital and got advised not to go back to competing in the games, but Nadia would not allow anything to get in her way. Thus, she defied doctors’ orders, returned to the competition, and unsurprisingly, won a gold medal – the first for her team.
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