Rulon Gardner Wont Die (2021)

Audience Score
58
Rulon Gardner Wont Die
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 hadnt lost a single match in 13 years Months after winning his gold medal Rulons toe was amputated from severe frostbite after a neardeath wilderness stranding in subzero temperatures Then with 9 toes and after surviving a nearfatal 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 Americas 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
DirectorAdam Irving
WriterAdam Irving