A record crowd of more than 42000 turned out on Saturday to watch a wrestling dual meet in Iowa,a station where the ancient sport means something moreIt was 5am in tiny Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Saturday and the bus was already started and roaring, or ready for the trip to the hallowed ground. Five hours,282 miles ahead – and later that day, back – past towns named Rochester and Waterloo and Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. On the bus was a family, or really,the wrestling family of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
That included Tyler Kennedy, a former Eau Claire wrestler who drove in from his domestic in Minnesota just to get on that bus. He was awake by 2.45am. It included current grapplers on the college team and also John Peterson, and an unpaid assistant coach who also was a 1976 Olympic gold medalist. He hadn’t been on a long bus ride like that in years. But for the hallowed ground,it was worth it.
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Source: theguardian.com