Never Stop Pushing: My Life from a Wyoming Farm to the Olympic Medals Stand

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Never Stop Pushing is a motivational autobiography by Olympic Greco-Roman champion wrestler Rulon Gardner (Gold Medal, 2000; Bronze Medal, 2004). This inspiring memoir comes from one of the crucial world’s most remarkable athletes who achieved arguably the best 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 — within the 2000 Gold Medal match. Rulon Gardner tells the tale of his impoverished upbringing as one among nine children in a close-knit Mormon circle of relatives 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 made arduous by learning disabilities that have challenged him his whole life. Also, after winning his Gold Medal, we read how this champion survived a snowmobile twist of fate that marooned him outdoors for eighteen hours in high country. Rulon Gardner recovered from this and went on to defend his Gold Medal at Athens in 2004—yet any other comeback from this athlete who used to be supposed to easily fade away.
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