Rulon Gardner Won't Die (2021)
89 min
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 hadn't lost a single match in 13 years. Months after winning his gold medal, Rulon's toe was amputated from severe frostbite after a near-death wilderness stranding in sub-zero temperatures. Then with 9 toes - and after surviving a near-fatal 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 America's 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.
- Release date
- April 2, 2021
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Bob Costas as Self
- Katie Couric as Self
- Rulon Gardner as Self
- Philip Hersh
- Aleksandr Karelin as Self - Russian Greco-Roman Wrestler
- Jim Lampley as Self
- Matt Lauer
- Jay Leno
- Joe Posnanski
- Brian Williams as Self
Crew
- Adam Irving · Director
- Adam Irving · Writer
- Diego Hurtado de Mendoza · Producer
- Adam Irving · Producer
- Travis LaBella · Cinematographer
- Adam Irving · Editor
- Fred Koschmann · Editor