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Rulon Gardner to visit Olympic Training Center

By Helene Elliott
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Rulon Gardner, whose upset victory in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2000 Sydney Games remains one of the most stunning feats in Olympic history, will visit the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista on Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Gardner, who also won a bronze medal in Athens in 2004, is a great storyteller and inspirational speaker. He’s going to be signing copies of his book ‘Never Stop Pushing.’

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The training center will also be offering a tour of the facility, and that’s very worthwhile. Athletes in all sports train there -- even winter athletes visit for conditioning purposes -- and you get a sense of how hard they work and how much sweat lies behind their dreams. The tour will start at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, check out this website or call (619) 656-1500.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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