6-Time Gold-Winning Swimmer Severs Spine

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 3:48PM EDT / Published Jun. 09, 2014 6:54PM EDT

Amy Van Dyken, the first female American athlete to win four gold medals in one Olympics game in 1996, got into an accident while driving her all-terrain vehicle in Arizona. Van Dyken, who is a six-time gold winner, severed her spine after dropping down a 5-to 7-foot embankment. She apparently told responding emergency workers that she couldn't move her toes or feel her legs. Her husband says she is "in good spirits."

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6-Time Gold-Winning Swimmer Severs Spine