Sentences with phrase «olympic wrestling»

I wanted to show up in one of those Olympic wrestling outfits, like a onesie with shorts.

WHAT: Olympic wrestling champions Mark (Channing Tatum) and David Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) are courted by multimillionaire John du Pont (Steve Carrell) to train at his private facility as members of Team Foxcatcher in preparation for the 1988 Olympic Games, only for the partnership to end in tragedy.

FOXCATCHER: This is the true story of two Olympic wrestling brothers, and the very rich man who covets them.

Enter Steve Carell as John E. du Pont heir to the du Pont chemical fortune who envisions his estate as the home and new training center for the US Olympic wrestling team headed to the 1988 Games in Seoul — with himself as head coach.

He was known for sponsoring and mentoring Olympic wrestling brothers Mark (Tatum) and Dave (Ruffalo) Schultz.

On his 800 - acre estate not far from Valley Forge, du Pont built a private training center for pentathletes, swimmers and wrestlers with an eye toward leading the U.S. Olympic wrestling team to glory and thereby restoring his nation's greatness.

Now Miller takes on another tragedy, coupled (as life seems to do) with the inspiring story of Olympic wrestling champions Mark and David Schultz played by Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo respectively.

Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo play Olympic wrestling brothers lead by multimillionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) in this high - powered sporting drama.

Directed by Bennett Miller (MONEYBALL, COPOTE), FOXCATCHER tells the gripping, true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Ruffalo) and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont (Carell), heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune that led to murder.

The Schultz brothers and the Banach brothers became the first brothers in U.S. history to win Olympic Wrestling titles in the same Olympics.

Carell plays John du Pont, the wealthy wrestling enthusiast whose unhealthy relationship with Olympic wrestling champions Mark and Dave Schultz ended in tragedy in 1996.

Fortunately, his latest effort, Foxcatcher — a resonant portrait of the peculiar and destructive relationship between multi-millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and Olympic Wrestling legends, Dave (Mark Ruffalo) and Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum)-- is no exception.

This gripping and bizarrely tragic tale of a billionaire who took it upon himself to bankroll and train the US Olympic wrestling team for the 1988 Seoul games is quite extraordinary.

They highlight not only the relationship between brothers and Olympic wrestling champions, Mark and Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo), but also the make - up job on Steve Carell, who plays the eccentric and dangerous millionaire John du Pont.

Du Pont developed a friendship with Olympic wrestling champion David Schultz (played by Mark Ruffalo) and began coaching his brother Mark (Channing Tatum).

The story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz and how paranoid schizophrenic John duPont killed his brother, Olympic Champion Dave Schultz.

Based on a true story, it chronicles the highs and the very lows of the relationship between brothers and Olympic Wrestling Champions Mark and Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum and...

According to the studio's press release, the film — written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman — chronicles the «true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont Chemical fortune, that led to murder.»

Based on a true story, it chronicles the highs and the very lows of the relationship between brothers and Olympic Wrestling Champions Mark and Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) and benefactor John du Pont (Steve Carell).

Based on true events, the film recalls the fascinating story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing

«I've been looking for a father my whole life and I finally found him in John du Pont,» says Channing Tatum as Olympic wrestling champ Mark Schultz in «Foxcatcher.»

With career best performances and phenomenal direction, the film tells the true story of Olympic Wrestling Champion brothers Mark Schultz (Channing...

Based on true events, the film recalls the fascinating story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz (played by Channing Tatum) who befriends an eccentric multi-millionaire (Steve Carell) to...

This story of the strange relationship between eccentric millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and Olympic wrestling champions Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) will be a major contender during awards seasons, with all three actors in the running for nominations.

In Olympic wrestling, ties go to the last person who scored a point.

NAMED: To the U.S. Olympic wrestling team, in the 136 1/2 - pound division, RANDY LEWIS, 25, of Rapid City, S. Dak., after defeating Lee Roy Smith, 26, of Stillwater, Okla., and Ricky Dellagatta, 26, of New York City, in matches stipulated by an arbitrator's ruling.

He has provided financial assistanceto aspiring Olympians, and before the Athens Games in the summer of 2004, hesponsored a training camp in South Florida for the U.S. Olympic wrestling team.The Florida Amateur Wrestling Association website even lists Raich (who did notreturn repeated messages seeking comment) as the contact for the Wrestling Clubof the Palm Beaches.

To decide its champions, Olympic wrestling works off a 16 - wrestler bracket, with every match as single elimination.

Monday is the second day of Olympic wrestling in 2016, and it includes Greco - Roman matches in the 85 kg and 130 kg weight classes.

And model underground boxing — an only in NEW York cottage industry featuring male fashion models posing as fighters — is to boxing what the soap opera of spandex was to Olympic wrestling, only without the wink.

# 25 David Zuniga WORLAND Member of 1996 U.S. Olympic wrestling team qualified for four of last five world championship teams.

Nevertheless, since his opponent surrendered before Arrachion died, Arrachion won the Olympic wrestling bout that year.

Not exact matches

U.S. Olympic wrestler Jordan Burroughs (right) competes at the 2016 U.S. Olympic team wrestling trials in Iowa City, Iowa on April 10.

«Other athletes to test positive include: Semion Elistratov of Russia, an Olympic gold medalist in short - track speedskating; Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, a world champion speedskater; Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia, an Olympic silver medalist in wrestling; and Abeba Aregawi of Sweden, a world champion runner.»

CNN: Muslim Olympians wrestle with Ramadan dilemma Olympic judo competitor Hemeed Al Drie plans to sin during the Games in London, he admits with a grin.

Days before this year's Olympic trials, Tervel Dlagnev was in such intense pain he considered quitting wrestling.

At a time when a record two - fifths of Olympic athletes are female, when women are competing in every sport that men do except boxing and wrestling, when IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch declares that «the problem of [women's] participation has been solved,» the problem is in fact unsolved.

«The word I think of is betrayed,» said Gleasman, a junior who wrestled at 220 pounds for the U.S. Olympic Greco - Roman team last summer in Atlanta.

Matt Ghaffari, who wrestled for Cleveland State and won the silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, says that men's wrestling is a unique sport, «The oldest sport known to man, and one where a man who weighs 110 pounds and one that weighs 300 pounds can compete.

Jones» hard work on the mat and in the classroom also netted the 2015 Fargo National Freestyle Championship and a realistic shot at competing to wrestle in Rio at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

«I knew we had something special right away with Sariyah, but women's wrestling has not always been an Olympic sport,» Ruben said.

If You Can't Beat»Em, Hire»Em USA Wrestling has tabbed two - time Olympic champ Sergei Beloglazov to coach Yanks in the Russian style

He's now the youngest American Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.

Greco - Roman and freestyle wrestling takes hold, and combatants suddenly have to shift their thinking back to the disciplines that have been featured on the Olympic level for years.

The only real exception are Olympic sports (e.g. Athletics, Wrestling) for which the USOC pays USADA.

Just two years after his second Olympic gold in 1992, he was leading the OSU wrestling program to a national title as head coach.

We will also have the 2016 US Olympic Greco Roman Wrestling Team coming in for a training camp, and to help with the developmental component of the event.

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has rewarded Nigeria's Wrestling team at the just concluded commonwealth Olympic held in Gold Coast, Australia.

My last protégé Helen Maroulis became the first American female to win Olympic gold in Rio in the 53 kg in Women's Wrestling, easily defeating the indisputed champion of the last 3 Olympics Saori Yoshida because of your new - found strength.

Now he does some Olympic lifting and other exercises, but he has such a strong bodybuilding background, he was able to build such a dense physique, that now he's able to handle a lot of other stuff that's come along — including pro wrestling.