Catching up with Rick We discuss the 2020 US that took place in Iowa Oct, 9 The Man in the arena https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63389/roosevelts-man-arena ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr9NrwY4-3I

"Leaders as well as winners are a rare breed” Lee Kemp The ability to communicate what it takes to be a leader and a winner is also a rare talent. Lee shares what do leaders and winners have in common? Listen to Lee Kemp, American freestyle wrestler who achieved unparalleled success at the high school, collegiate, and international levels. The man that beat Gable as a teenager. He was wrestler of the decade 70’. After winning 3 World championships he was slated to win the Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia before the American president Jimmy Carter Boycotted the American team from participating in the Olympics. Winning Gold Available on Lee’s website http://www.leekemp.com or on https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Gold-Success-Secrets-Champion/dp/1936965283 Kemp is the subject of a film documentary, entitled Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story https://www.amazon.com/Wrestled-Away-Lee-Kemp-Story/dp/B07WVF79PP Kemp was America's first three-time World Champion, winning his first title in 1978 at age 21, establishing him as the youngest American world champion ever, a distinction he held for 30 years. Lee was a four-time World Cup Champion, 7-time United States Freestyle National Champion and was a heavy favorite for gold earning a berth on the 1980 United States Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team, but was unable to compete because of the U.S. boycott of the Olympics. Lee was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 1990. Then at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where he was the freestyle coach for the U.S, he became just the fifth American to be inducted into the UWW Hall of Fame. Lee has three children, two sons and a daughter. Other accomplishments • 1975 Defeated Dan Gable 7-6 at the Northern Open • 1978 US Wrestling Federation "Man of the Year" • 1978 Sullivan Award Finalist • 1979 Sullivan Award Finalist • 1983 Inducted into the Wisconsin Wrestling Hall of Fame • 1998 Named the "Wrestler of the Decade" for the 70's by the Amateur Wrestling News • 2005 Named to the NCAA Wrestling 75th Anniversary Team • 2008 Inducted to International Wrestling Hall of Fame • 2009 Elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame Notes from Lee Kemp conversation • 1980 Olympics: loss, communication, gable matches • How to rebuild from loss. • There is always uncertainty in life, through disappointments. We don’t always get what we want. If you make it through the Fire, it makes you a better person. • As a coach, it is tough to relate to each person’s different levels of desire. • Winners are made first off the mat, and then on the mat. • It was important for him to see Gables Character, off the mat, as a role model of leadership and of a champion. His language was clean, and he was focused. Modeling good b ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbRWarqrmiQ