Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Nine lives of Rulon Gardner: Ex-Olympic champ has another close call - San Jose Mercury News
Swimming for his life in a frigid lake, Rulon Gardner recalled his brushes with death.
He had punctured his abdomen while playing with a bow and arrow in elementary school. He had lost a toe to frostbite after a 2002 snowmobile mishap. He had walked away from a 2004 motorcycle accident in Colorado Springs.
In his scariest ordeal to date, the two-time Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling survived a plane crash last weekend, swam more than a mile in 44-degree water and spent a night on a deserted shore.
Gardner said this week that he suffered only a half-inch cut on his right index finger and a bruised hip after crashing in a single-engine plane into Good Hope Bay on Lake Powell near the Utah-Arizona border. ...
Swimming for his life in a frigid lake, Rulon Gardner recalled his brushes with death.
He had punctured his abdomen while playing with a bow and arrow in elementary school. He had lost a toe to frostbite after a 2002 snowmobile mishap. He had walked away from a 2004 motorcycle accident in Colorado Springs.
In his scariest ordeal to date, the two-time Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling survived a plane crash last weekend, swam more than a mile in 44-degree water and spent a night on a deserted shore.
Gardner said this week that he suffered only a half-inch cut on his right index finger and a bruised hip after crashing in a single-engine plane into Good Hope Bay on Lake Powell near the Utah-Arizona border. ...
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