A wrestling immortal
Date: 27-02-2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info TeamUnited States |
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GARDNER KEEPS CHEATING DEATH
Johnny Weismuller went from the Olympics to Tarzan. Arnold Schwarzenegger went from bodybuilding to Terminator.
Now comes Rulon Gardner, the Next Action Hero. For one thing, think how much money they'd save not having to use stuntmen.
Saturday, the Olympic wrestling champion and two friends were in a plane that crashed into the Good Hope Bay on the Utah-Arizona border. They swam for an hour in 44-degree water, then spent the night in the cold without shelter before a fisherman found them.
Just the latest, but not even the greatest, brush with death since Gardner beat Soviet legend Alexander Karelin to win the heavyweight Greco-Roman gold in 2000.
• In 2002, he went snowmobiling in his native Wyoming and got stranded overnight after falling from a 50-foot cliff onto a frozen water hole and breaking through. His body temperature dropped to 88 degrees, and he lost a toe.
• In 2004, his motorcycle slammed into a car and he went across the hood. He got up and rode away.
• His Web site says that in third grade, he stuck an arrow into his abdomen during show-and-tell.
Gardner said the lesson from his latest escapade is ``hopefully teach people to be smarter about the choices they make.''
How's he teaching that? All we've learned is that Gardner is from Krypton.
