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In Brief

I broke my thumb in four to five different places. I hit it so hard that my knuckle blew out the end of my thumb and I severed all the tendons.”

Fred Andreasen

On breaking his thumb a week before the world championship of hand

drilling in Carson City in 1978. He not only splinted the break and competed, he won.

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