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Never stop pushing : [my life from a Wyoming farm to the Olympic medals stand]
- Title
- Never stop pushing : [my life from a Wyoming farm to the Olympic medals stand] / Rulon Gardner with Bob Schaller.
- Author
- Gardner, Rulon.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | GV1196.G37 A3 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schaller, Bob.
- Description
- 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- A motivational autobiography by Olympic Greco-Roman champion wrestler Rulon Gardner (Gold Medal, 2000; Bronze Medal, 2004). This athlete achieved arguably the greatest upset in individual sports history when he defeated the Russian Alexander Karelin--three-time Olympic champ, undefeated and unscored upon for a decade before his match with Gardner--in the 2000 Gold Medal match. Gardner tells of his impoverished upbringing as one of nine children in a close-knit Mormon family on a farm in Wyoming, where in performing unceasing chores he developed tremendous strength at an early age. Gardner writes about his struggles in school, challenged by learning disabilities. Also, after winning his Gold Medal, he survived a snowmobile accident that marooned him outdoors for eighteen hours in high country. Gardner went on to defend his Gold Medal at Athens in 2004--yet another comeback from this athlete who was supposed to simply fade away.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- 1 Never Stop Pushing 1 -- 2 Dumbo From the Farm 6 -- 3 Rural Roots 24 -- 4 The Gardner Clan 33 -- 5 Never Stop Pushing II 41 -- 6 Barn Burns, Hope Survives 56 -- 7 The Boy Who Made Every Day Count 61 -- 8 Leaving the Valley 83 -- 9 On My Own Two Feet in the Heartland 91 -- 10 To Be a Teacher 107 -- 11 Chasing My Wrestling and College Dreams 116 -- 12 Heroes 134 -- 13 The Route to 2000 139 -- 14 Journey to Gold 158 -- 15 The Miracle on the Mat 167 -- 16 Who Am I Now? 191 -- 17 Validation: Defending the Gold at the 2001 World Championships 203 -- 18 Miracle in the Mountains 218 -- 19 Another Run at the Olympics 274 -- 20 Athens, 2004 303 -- 21 Never Stop Pushing, Period 318.
- ISBN
- 0786715936
- 9780786715930
- LCCN
- 2006272981
- OCLC
- ocm61267135
- 61267135
- SCSB-1381026
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library