Rulon Gardner won gold in wrestling in arguably the biggest upset in Olympics history ... and now the American hero, who's 51 years old, tells TMZ Sports he's making a comeback, and the goal is the ...

“Rulon,” a two-hour documentary film on Rulon Gardner‘s stunning 2000 Olympic wrestling gold medal and adversity-filled two decades since, makes its television premiere on NBCSN on Friday at 11 p.m.

© 2026 Yahoo. All rights reserved. Rulon Gardner, a 2000 Olympic wrestling champion, said he was 15 pounds to heavy to compete at this week's U.S. Open despite ...

A chaotic restart at Charlotte Motor Speedway turned into a costly afternoon for Ty Gibbs on Sunday, Oct. 11. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver suffered a broken right-rear toe link after getting caught ...

In 1996, Team USA wrestler Kurt Angle won the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics. By the next Summer Games, when fellow U.S. Olympian Rulon Gardner took gold in Sydney with arguably the biggest upset ...

Throughout the summer, in a series called Hometown Hopefuls, NBC is spotlighting the stories of Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls from all fifty states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, as ...

ATHENS -- He sat down on the mat, legs crossed, fiddling with his laces. Rulon Gardner said he wanted to feel "the way you do when you take off your shoes as a four- or five-year-old kid, on the mat ...

The Golden State Warriors appeared to be an unbeatable Goliath until this week. Here are some sports Goliaths who fell. By Victor Mather Rulon Gardner, the American Olympic gold medalist in ...

Rulon Gardner is living a quiet life, just the way he likes it. He is 48 now, sells insurance and has a second job coaching wrestling at a Salt Lake City-area high school. It’s been 20 years since ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In another setback for one of the world's most decorated wrestlers, Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner has filed for bankruptcy. His most valuable belongings will be sold Oct. 27 by ...

He retired at the end of his 2004 match and then ballooned to 474 pounds—and facing potentially serious health problems—signed on to be a contestant on NBC's The Biggest Loser. But he quit the reality ...