It’s more of a one-on-two. “I lost 12 pounds [my last week], why would I leave? The one person that can change it is me.”. On the desk he has nothing but a binder, a notebook and a red Powerade Zero Sugar. When the new section opens to spectators, there’s a mad scramble to race down the stairs and claim the best seats. “I didn’t choose to leave,” he says.
She showed him real estate purchase agreements, contracts and more.
On-deck wrestlers stay on the floor in the warmup area as those with a longer wait time retreat to the bleachers. Because it wasn’t sitting in some rich collector’s safe after an auction, it was just being held onto by an old friend waiting to be made whole. But despite being the most recognizable face in the gym, one of the most eventful parts of his day is when a tournament official informs him that he has to wear his credential. That’s how thick the NDA was, he says. He wants to push the kids as hard as he can, the way old coaches pushed him, trying to be a force in their lives that leads them to greatness. Rulon says it’s a shame—they used to have two pictures of him hanging on the wall. He leans against the metal barricade, right next to the folded-up wall of lower level seats that can extend to cover the floor. Not even after his failed 2012 Olympic attempt. “What are you doing down there?” he bellows at one wrestler who is splayed out on all fours underneath an opponent. It may not always be easy, but Rulon has no plans to quit. Cows roam beyond a fence in his backyard, visible from a driveway that runs alongside his house to a fleet of cars in the back—a Ford Excursion, Ford F-250, Dodge Durango and the beloved VW Beetle. Gardner put out statements after the episode aired, too, saying he’d achieved his goal and was ready to go home to his wife. Rulon is walking carefully. Herriman’s lightest wrestler, Jack Lounsbury, is up first.
He won’t have as many days where he works from 8 a.m. until after-school practice and then gets home at 9 p.m. without having worked out himself. And who’s seen more accidents than Rulon Gardner? Rulon plays the “Don’t you know who I am?” card—but, seriously, don’t you know who he is? They share a big hug and run into the tunnel, into the basement level of the arena, to go celebrate. I have no source and I would say it’s just a rumour. The background on his phone is a picture of Byers, still in his singlet, right after Rulon beat him at the U.S. trials for his spot on the 2004 Olympic team. The frostbitten night on the mountain cost him a toe, after which he recovered to win a bronze medal in Athens in 2004—a feat that’s as much a part of his legacy as the gold in Sydney. “That's all because of Rulon, right there,” he said. JRI insurance has a branch in Payson, 60 miles south of Salt Lake City, about a 50-minute drive south of Herriman High. Bob Harper, a trainer on the show since Season 1, and the face of the program when it relaunched earlier in 2020, is among those whom Rulon thought he was getting close to. Part of that, he concedes, was because nothing helped him keep his weight down like wrestling. My Great Olympic Moments revisits the most memorable performances in Olympic History, recalled by the iconic gold medallists themselves, describing in detail the epic moments that led to their historic achievement. Rulon was partially on the hook. Both lightweights who qualified for States credit Rulon for helping them with the mental aspect of the sport. But he also knows he can’t risk pushing them away. Rulon tipped the scale at 474 pounds at the onset of the show, up more than 200 from the 265-pound division in which he competed at the 2004 Olympics. Warr, a senior with braces on his teeth, clutches his practice partner’s foot two feet off the ground and stares back with rapt attention as Rulon discusses technique.
He was a success, in the way success is measured on the show. Regain my work ethic. “You’re the coolest,” Moses tells him, as they both delight in the excuse to catch up and reminisce about their time on the show.
He talks to the teammates who’ll be there as spectators about letting that experience motivate them for next year.
He talks to the state qualifiers about visualizing their day. It’s Day 2 of the state tourney. This match ends as abruptly as it begins. There’s just one catch: He has so many autographed items, he doesn’t know who signed many of them. Each mat is set up the same. “That’s why I work so hard right now, to try to regain my name. A potential new client comes in for what Rulon calls a one-on-one. But behind the scenes, he says it was miserable. There were parents with their kids, spouses and siblings. “Former athlete goes broke” is a common trope, oftentimes the result of overspending or falling down the wrong path. He thinks about headlines in the Star Valley Independent, back in his hometown in Wyoming that was so happy to claim him when things were going well. “I can pick them both up if you want,” he jokes about his more than 400 pounds combined of state champion wrestlers. But of course you can try this exercise. The success I had in wrestling, which I learned on the farm, now I use it in the insurance business and in the wrestling community. He also takes pride in the fact that even if he wouldn’t have ultimately taken his old practice partner Dremiel Byers’s spot on the ’12 Olympic team, at least he made everyone in the room work a little harder. They grew close during the show, expressed mutual love for each other as they hugged goodbye in Rulon’s final scene and spoke a few times in the years that followed.
… I know what I need to do, now I need to focus, and The Biggest Loser taught you that.
At points, there were times I thought, ‘You know what, just give up. Karelin was Russian and was so dominant that he was undefeated in international competition and hadn't lost a point in the previous six years. And he’s since gotten smarter about managing his finances and investments. He has awards, trophies and plaques, plus T-shirts signed by fellow Olympians. Rulon says he and Harper spoke in one of the show’s vans for an hour and a half after he announced his exit.
Some would see this as good coaching—that when you have someone you know can be pushed as hard as Rulon, it’s your job as a trainer to push them. Watch our new podcast hosted by Tom Kirkland and Sam Friedman featuring leading personalities from the world of sports. Officially, Rulon is coaching four kids at States. After an FBI investigation, she pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering and was sentenced to 34 months in prison. He now says it wasn’t true. “Even though it was one of the things that almost killed me, it was truly amazing.
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“Welcome back,” a man on the waitstaff said, as Rulon made his way to a table. He jumped anyway. This is not LeBron James sitting courtside at his son’s basketball game, jovially stepping onto the court, with everyone in the gym streaming his every reaction online. Others are still “drinking the Kool-Aid,” he says. Rulon still feels his match against Aleksandr Karelin every day. Rulon and Rad follow Talmage out to the mat. Despite spending four months in a high-school wrestling environment where weight is an obsession and scales are plentiful, he says he avoided stepping on one the whole season. He says that after his comeback bid fell short—the result of the 40-year-old not being able to make weight on the day of the U.S. Olympic trials—a contestant gleefully chirped to the public, “Once a quitter, always a quitter,” even though Rulon says she knew he wasn’t really a quitter. That was just a small dumbbell shy of 500. He has two lawyer friends in particular whom he talks to about business decisions.
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