Rulon Gardner Won't Die(2021)

Name: Rulon Gardner Won't Die
Director: Adam Irving
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-01-01
Duration: 89 min
Cast: Rulon Gardner, Bob Costas, Katie Couric, Alexander Karelin, Matt Lauer

Rulon Gardner Bob Costas Katie Couric Alexander Karelin Matt Lauer

The astonishing true story of Rulon Gardner, a dairy farmer from Wyoming who shocked the world at the Sydney Olympics, overcoming 2000 to 1 odds by defeating a Russian wrestler who hadn't lost a single match in 13 years. Months after winning his gold medal, Rulon's toe was amputated from severe frostbite after a near-death wilderness stranding in sub-zero temperatures. Then with 9 toes - and after surviving a near-fatal motorcycle accident, Rulon won another medal at the next Olympics, only to survive a plane crash by swimming two miles in a freezing lake. Finally, after ballooning to 500 lbs., Rulon won America's heart competing on a season of The Biggest Loser only to lose his life savings and retreat into obscurity after getting swindled in a real estate deal that cost him his Olympic medals.