In the picture American figure skater Tenley Albright practices along the ice prior to a competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Less than two weeks before the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina, Albright was practising when she hit a rut. As she fell, her left skate hit her ankle joint, cut through three layers of her right boot, slashed a vein, and severely scraped the bone. Her father arrived two days later and patched her up. In the Olympic competition she skated well enough to earn the first-place votes of ten of the 11 judges.