Kurt's claims of a "broken freakin' neck" are a bit exaggerated but it's easier to just say that than what really happened which was still extremely impressive.
>Angle faced further hardships while taking part in the 1996 Olympic Trials, when he suffered a severe neck injury, fracturing two of his cervical vertebrae, herniating two discs, and pulling four muscles. Nonetheless, Angle won the trials and then spent the subsequent five months resting and rehabilitating. By the Olympics, Angle was able to compete, albeit with several pain-reducing injections in his neck
So he fractured and herniated his discs at the *trials*, not the actual Olympics. But hey winning the Olympic trials with a broken freakin' neck ain't no fucking cakewalk, let me tell ya.
