Rulon Gardner

The 2016 Summer Olympics are just around the corner and, while the Cowboy State has yet to produce any Olympians this year, many Wyoming athletes have represented their country proudly over the years. In fact, Wyoming had the country's highest proportion of Olympic athletes in the 2012 Summer Games...

The website RantSports recently published an article naming the best athlete from each state in the country. Olympic gold medal wrestler Rulon Gardner was their pick for Wyoming's greatest athlete. Gardner is a native of Afton, Wyoming, and a graduate of Star Valley High School...

The Olympics have been going strong since 1896, and since that time, Greco Roman & Freestyle Wrestling has been a part of it.  Long before that, wrestling was a part of the ancient Olympic games dating as far back as 708 BC.  It sounds like that is all about to change.

In another setback for one of the world's most decorated wrestlers, Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner has filed for bankruptcy.

In case you haven't heard, Afton native and Olympic gold medalist, Rulon Gardner, is a contestant on NBC's hit reality show The Biggest Loser.