Video: American Wrestler Somehow Wins Gold After Trailing with Less Than 1 Second Remaining in Match
American wrestler Gable Steveson narrowly won Olympic gold after trailing with less than a second remaining in his final match at the Tokyo Games.
Steveson faced Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili in the men’s freestyle 125-kilogram final on Friday night, The Associated Press reported.
The American trailed 8-5 with time expiring in the match.
With 10 seconds remaining, he managed to take his opponent down and bring the score to 8-7.
Steveson miraculously scored again with less than a second left to win the match 9-8.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED! ?@GableSteveson grabs the GOLD as time expires. #TokyoOlympics pic.twitter.com/yqMc3wbXsu
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) August 6, 2021
“I looked at the clock and it was like 0.3,” Steveson told the AP.
“And I was like, ‘Ain’t no way.’ And my head just like flushed with everything. And I was like, ‘Wow.’”
Petriashvili challenged the final points to no avail, and Steveson gained another point as a result.
The 21-year-old with WWE aspirations celebrated his win with a backflip on the mat.
That GOLD medal feeling. ?#TokyoOlympics | @GableSteveson pic.twitter.com/rded6GWL6o
— #TokyoOlympics (@NBCOlympics) August 6, 2021
“You know, I put on a good show,” he said.
“People are going to remember the name Gable Steveson.”
Steveson was the NCAA heavyweight champion at the University of Minnesota this year.
He has not lost a match on the international level since August 2019, Fox News reported.
Steveson will go down in history alongside his namesake Dan Gable, the 1972 Olympic gold medalist.
“There’s a lot of possibilities for me with this gold medal,” he told the AP.
“A lot of doors opened after me winning a national title, and now the whole world is open for me to see after this Olympic gold medal.”
With the $250,000 he earned for claiming Olympic gold, he plans to take his family out to dinner and buy his mom a Louis Vuitton purse.
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