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...Roman rules. Shocked judges reviewed the videotape of the moment. "He made a mistake, and I got a lucky call," said Gardner, who explained that the seeming impossibility of winning allowed him to grapple more conservatively. "He was the one who had to go out and win the gold medal. I would have been tickled pink to win the silver." With five seconds left in overtime, an exhausted Karelin, who was wrestling his third match of the day to Gardner's second, shocked the crowd, which included I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
Gardner, who was not expected to be in medal contention, beat a three-time Olympic champion who had never lost in international competition, who had not given up as much as a single point in 10 years, a man so intimidating that his last two opponents for a medal in Barcelona rolled over and pinned themselves instead of being pulped by the great Russian...
...before. The two wry hosts, Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson, delighted in running wrestling footage accompanied by Barry White love songs while speculating on why large men would grope and mount each other from behind. The two took jabs at fat judo contestants and openly mocked the New Zealand medal tally (four as of Saturday night). The public lapped it up. After barely a week on the air, the show's mascot, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, was so popular the I.O.C. requested that athletes stop posing with...
...Olympics takes a backseat this time around, but still wins the 400 meter gold medal and the 4x400m relay. He completes his career with 9 world championship medals and 5 Olympic medals, all gold. Seems fitting for the man with the golden shoes...
...Baseball pulls the "Miracle on the Diamond" and defeats Cuba for the gold medal...