Rulon Gardner <br>Age: 46<br>Birthplace: Afton, Wyo.<br>College: Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho); Nebraska.<br>Olympics: Greco-Roman wrestling, gold medal (Sydney, 2000) and bronze medal (Athens ...

The 'Rulon Burger' is 1.5 pounds of meat on a bun that is custom-baked in Idaho Falls, a family-sized order of fries and a 44-ounce drink. Rulon's Burger Barn owner Russell Gardner, Rulon's ...

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2007, file photo, Rulon Gardner holds his gold and his bronze Olympic medals after giving a motivational talk to students and faculty at the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass.

Rulon Gardner: “I think it’s my conditioning, and my tenacity to not quit." After skin grafts and four surgeries, doctors managed to save his feet, but he did lose one toe.

Former Olympic heavyweight wrestling gold medalist Rulon Gardner, left, joins Van Stoke in broadcasting the championship round of the 2008 U.S. National Freestyle Championships on Saturday at the ...

Rulon Gardner, by his own admission, has not had an easy life. Four years ago, he missed the weigh-in for the Olympic Trials final by 22 seconds, as he got treatment for a staph infection.

Rulon Gardner’s effort to win a third Olympic medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at age 40 ended when he did not appear for a weigh-in at the Olympic trials in Iowa City, Iowa.

Rulon Gardner’s gold medal in Olympic wrestling is the greatest thing to happen to this isolated corner of Wyoming since … well, Rulon’s 70-year-old father, Reed, can’t think of anything ...

Rulon Gardner timeline 1971 — Gardner is born Aug. 16 in Afton, Wyo. 2000 — At the Sydney Olympics, the relatively unknown Gardner makes it to the gold medal Greco-Roman heavyweight match and ...

The idea began with brothers Rulon and Russell Gardner in the early 2000s. Russell Gardner, principal at local Swift Creek High School, opened the Country Village in 2003.

Rulon Gardner, Greco-Roman wrestler from United States, wins gold, defeating previously unbeaten Aleksandr Karelin of Russia; Gardner hopes both he and his sport will benefit from victory and is ...