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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Rulon Gardner did the unthinkable. He beat the unbeatable. He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win.
Gardner, never an NCAA champion, never a world medalist, ended Karelin's string of three Olympic gold medals and 13-year unbeaten streak by winning the Olympic super heavyweight wrestling gold medal 1-0 Wednesday.
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…Koguachvili were the two biggest favorites in Greco-Roman.
Matt Lindland, whose court fight to make the team wound up in the Supreme Court, also surprisingly won a silver medal.
Also Wednesday, Armen Nazarian, the 1996 silver medalist from Bulgaria, tackled his coach and did a backflip after pinning 1999 world champion Kim In-sub of Korea in 2:34 at 127 3/4 pounds (58 kg).
Every gold medalist to follow also did a flip -- even Gardner, who managed to nearly complete it.
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