r/interesting • u/Green____cat • Oct 04 '24
In 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan, an Armenian Olympic swimmer, saves 20 people trapped in a bus that sank 80' offshore. It took him several hours to save them all, and he suffered injuries that put him in the hospital for 45 days—it ended his Olympic career. HISTORY
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u/Shot_Platypus4420 Oct 04 '24
Iron Man. In an interview he said that he was worried that during his last dive he pulled out a seat cushion instead of a person. But forgive me for being tedious: he is not an Olympic medalist. And we can call him Armenian by nationality, not by belonging to the country he played for, and then it is probably not very ethical.