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Sport Tennis
The incredible story of Richard Norris Williams, the American tennis player who survived the Titanic sinking and then won gold at the Olympics
Richard Norris Williams refused to have his legs amputated after surviving the Titanic's sinking. He won a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Richard Norris Williams survived the sinking of the Titanic and went on to become an Olympic gold-medalist tennis player.George Rinhart/Corbis/Getty Images; Bettman/Getty Images
