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When I won a spot on the team, I went running out of the field house to call my wife. I stopped and started to cry. It was an incredible feeling. Nothing like it...
I was devastated. I couldn’t believe this was happening again – losing by one point in the last match. Just like four years earlier.
” THE TRIALS THIS book is a powerful collection of stories about 90 remarkable young men – in their own words. These wrestlers, from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, had a common goal... to make the US Olympic wrestling team. Their heartfelt stories reveal their ordeals – from fighting backroom politics and racial prejudices to surviving weight-cutting countdowns and physical training beyond – way beyond – normal boundaries. Here are their stories of glorious achievements and punishing defeats. The stories of their Trials... www.WrestlersAtTheTrials.com
ISBN 978-0-9799051-0-0