10 Wrestlers Who Competed In The Olympics

3. Kurt Angle - Atlanta 1996

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Chances are if you went up to 100 people on the street and asked them to name a professional wrestler who competed in the Olympic Games, the top Family Fortunes answer would be Kurt Angle. Rightly so too, as Angle is the only Olympic gold medallist in the history of professional wrestling.

He did it with a broken freakin' neck too, and by his own admission Angle feels he was only just coming into his own as a grappler. Angle stated on Vince Russo's podcast that he felt he had more to accomplish in wrestling, but was also somewhat disillusioned with the sport.

What is there to write about Kurt Angle and the Olympics? Angle will go down in history as the most notable individual from this great business to compete at the games. End of story.

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