Why rulon gardner leaves biggest loser

NBC released a statement that "Rulon chose to leave the show for personal reasons and we respected his wishes. We wish him well. He weighed pounds when he competed in the Olympics. Gardner won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Olympics, and followed that with a bronze medal at the Games. He then announced his retirement from the sport.

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Thanks for signing up! There it is. Not only did Rulon need to leave the show in order to shift his training regimen toward wrestling and away from weight loss, he needed to leave the show in order to get free of his contractual obligations to NBC. This suggests that he left when he left in order to start some contractual clock running. Surely he had obligations to NBC from the start, and apparently, he wanted to get free of them as soon as he had gotten what he wanted from the network.

Are you kidding me? His departure from the show aired on April 26, but it was taped several months earlier than that.

If we knew precisely when he severed those ties and then we did the math leading up to these Facebook announcements, I bet we would have a pretty good idea how long that non-compete clause lasted. He is launching a lot of new projects, and NBC is clearly not getting a piece of any of them. He goes on to speak to the famous chip-eating episode, which is sure to make his fans happy. But, what also comes through is his bitterness.

These are his beefs. But he already told us above that he only watched 20 minutes of the whole season. This is just non-sensical, ill-tempered, petulance.

One or the other. Not both. According to an NBC website, Gardner dropped pounds during his 17 weeks on the show, which began taping last year. That would make him pounds -- the amount he says he weighed the year he clinched gold at the Summer Games in Australia. A member of the U.