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11 Examples Of Athletes Playing Through Extreme Injuries

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The NBA Playoffs have been plagued by injury and sickness.

Last night Bulls player Nate Robinson played 42 minutes with the flu while vomiting on the bench, and Warriors player David Lee came back from a torn hip flexor after just 12 days.

Some of the most iconic moments in sports history involve hobbled athletes fighting through pain to compete for a title.

We picked out 10 of the most striking examples of this type of toughness.

Ronnie Lott played in a 1985 playoff game with a crushed finger that eventually had to be amputated

Source: SI



Curt Schilling won Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS on a bloody ankle. Before the game, he had a crude surgery where a tendon in his ankle was sutured to his ankle tissue

Source: MLB.com



Shun Fujimoto helped Japan win the team gymnastics gold medal at the 1976 Olympics after breaking his kneecap. He competed on the rings with the injury, and ended up dislocating it when he landed

Source: The Guardian



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