George Eyser, who competed at the 1904 Olympics and won 6 medals (three golds, two silvers and a bronze), had a wooden leg.
Meet George Eyser. He's the one in the center there, wearing khakis as he holds himself upside down on the parallel bars. Eyser won six medals in the 1904 Summer Olympics (the third modern-day Olympic Games and the first ones where gold, silver and bronze medals were introduced for the first three places). He had one flesh-and-blood leg. The other was amputated below the knee after a train accident. So, how did Eyser compete over a century ago? With a wooden prosthesis, of course.
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