Rulon Gardner Won't Die

Rulon Gardner Won't Die (2021)

TMDb

5.8

02/04/2021 • 1h 29m
original-title

Rulon Gardner Won't Die

status

Released

production-companies

Mandalay Sports Media

original-language

English

budget

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revenue

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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.

director
production-countries

United States of America

spoken-languages

English

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