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/rocky3rocky Oct 04 '24

Maybe the re-examined story of his life was he spent those years unknowingly training to be the hero that was needed that day and the Olympics was just a side-quest. None of us would have heard of this athlete from such a small country if he hadn't been part of this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

Exactly, that was the precise moment he was training for and he didn't fail!