{"id":1792178,"date":"2023-01-01T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792178"},"modified":"2023-01-01T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:36:37","slug":"u-s-wrestling-legend-rulon-gardner-pursuing-olympic-comeback-at-51-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-wrestling-legend-rulon-gardner-pursuing-olympic-comeback-at-51-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Rulon Gardner, U.S.Wrestling Legend, Attempts an Olympic Comeback at 51 years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-wrestling-legend-rulon-gardner-pursuing-olympic-comeback-at-51-years-old%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rulon Gardiner shocked the wrestling world in Sydney 2000 when he beat Alexandre Kareline. But what he\u2019s attempting now could be his biggest upset yet.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, now 51 years old, would like to compete again in the 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cI still wanna give more back to the sport, the sport that I love and that\u2019s wrestling,\u201d Gardner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/12\/30\/rulon-gardner-wrestling-summer-olympic-return-50s\/?adid=social-twa\">told<\/a> TMZ Sports. \u201cWhen you have a goal like wrestling it makes you get into shape so I\u2019ve lost a substantial amount of weight, getting healthy again, getting back after it, and now it\u2019s getting on the mat.\u201dEvery day it hurts like heck but it\u2019s so fun to be able to get out there and throw with these young kids. It\u2019s crazy \u2019cause I\u2019m wrestling kids half my age.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/115127665\/photo\/greco-roman-wrestling-in-sydney-australia-on-september-27-2000-97-to-130-kg-final-rulon.jpg?s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;k=20&#038;c=haruVwWXHZ_y5bkXedT8BMiEx5CYwjCadmFvZz_EPUw=\" alt=\"Sydney Olympics: Greco roman wrestling in Sydney, Australia on September 27, 2000 - 97 to 130 kg, final: Rulon Gardner , gold medal Alexandre...\" width=\"612\" height=\"406\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sydney Olympics: Greco roman wrestling in Sydney, Australia on September 27, 2000 \u2013 97 to 130 kg, final: Rulon Gardner (USA), gold medal Alexandre Kareline (urs). (Pool JO SANDY 2000\/Gamma Rapho via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To put some perspective on how shocking and incredible Gardner\u2019s victory over Karelin was, get a load of this. Alexandre \u201cThe Russian Bear\u201d Kareline had won three gold medals in a row, had not been defeated in 12 years, and hadn\u2019t yielded a point to an opponent in six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">That\u2019s generally regarded as good.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Gardner is confident that he is still very talented. It&#8217;s good enough to compete at an Olympic competition. Gardner needs to change his entire body. The legendary American wrestler tells TMZ he\u2019s already lost 150 pounds and plans to lose more.<\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1ffea4cf99d57380964e97bbfcfa7dc5\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default\" data-context=\"{\" section>\u201cOur goal is to go out there and show we can still compete with the top-level wrestlers of the world,\u201d Gardner spoke to TMZ Sports. \u201cI know I can compete with the guys in the U.S., the question is do I have what it takes in my 50s to get back to the Olympic games?\u201dGardner is determined to answer that question, even though it could be a difficult one. And no one can question Gardner\u2019s determination.<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rulon Gardiner shocked the wrestling world in Sydney 2000 when he beat Alexandre Kareline. But what he\u2019s attempting now could be his biggest upset yet. Gardner, now 51 years old, would like to compete again in the 2024 Summer Olympics. \u201cI still wanna give more back to the sport, the sport that I love and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6218,5458,3754,12782,9610,5301,3819,12781,12783],"class_list":["post-1792178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-attempts","tag-bongino","tag-comeback","tag-gardner","tag-legend","tag-olympic","tag-report","tag-rulon","tag-u-s-wrestling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}