Grid. It is four p.m. Dan Gable is starting a 2-hour workout in the 95 heat of the wrestling room. University of Minnesota wrestling star Gable Steveson won the Olympic men's freestyle 125kg gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the most dramatic fashion. Today, Gable still resides in the Hawkeye State with his wife, Kathy. Zaputil disappeared. "A lot of pain. Even 16 years after losing the opiate of competition, he's still grasping for something to replace it. Kathleen was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 16, 1942. Tom Kyle went to prison for life. "It burns," he says, gritting his teeth, and he sounds supremely happy. I just wanted to fish and wrestle. She stood in the kitchen that Sunday afternoon and fried the five-pound walleye Dan had caught just hours before. He went 39-0 this season, winning a second straight 220-pound state title. Later that night, some friends sit around the hotel bar, just as baffled as Mackie. ", Gable loves sitting in the sauna, even traveling overseas once to an international sauna convention. Even though he chose this life and they did not, that distinction became smaller and smaller until it ceased to matter at all. Gable served as the University of Iowa's head wrestling coach for 21 years. "This is a new purpose.". The logs are still wet, and the air smells like oak and elm. Gable's life is governed by justification and guilt, as if he's forever paying off some unseen debt. m ci ca cp i din ra ti Lt vo chiu hm nay (ngy 4/3). He'd lost his sister, and now his deepest fear was coming true. Dan Gable added another award Monday to his hall-of-fame resume. Gable wears the scars of his lifetime of doing battle. His patience astounds them, and they're starting to wonder what his future might hold. Diane Gable, Dan's older sister. The Des Moines Register's wrestling beat writer, Andy Hamilton, said that Gable quit coaching, in large part, because he could no longer stomach seeing wrestlers he cared about lose. When he comes to a trail blocked by a fallen tree, he turns around, making a note to come back later with a chain saw. His throat closed, and the words refused to come out. Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Sitting by himself in the dark, Gable struggled not to cry. "I don't think I can sit here," he says, stepping out of the suite into the hallway. "Starting a chain saw," he says. If they don't fully understand what pushes him, they know which clues are important. But these days are almost finished. Gable is spread-eagled in his backyard making goddamn snow angels. The 21-year-old Apple Valley, Minn . In Episode III of the three-part series, Dan's wife, Kathy, and their four daughters - Jenni, Annie, Molly and Mackie - share funny stories and more while discussing their family and wrestling! In the kitchen, Kathy starts laughing, imagining the scene. One evening, his mother screamed, "I wish I'd raised her a whore!" Every state but one now has high school wrestling, and every state but three has college wrestling. He thought he'd let Diane down. he roars down into the fulcrum of noise. His shoulders heave up and down, shaking. His struggle is never clearer than when he stops by the Iowa wrestling office, to pick up mail that still arrives there addressed to him, or to sign autographs. Dan remembers his parents feeling antsy. C du Kathy Uyn v ch r gy st bi nhng hnh ng tnh t, ngt ngo dnh cho nhau. Kyle's death brought back the sorrow and grief, the anger and guilt, and Gable walked around his 45 acres when he got home, yelling and screaming at the tall pines. Through stories funny, heartfelt, intense, and always . In 1974, Gable married Kathy Carpenter, and together they had four daughters: Jennifer, Annie, Molly and Mackenzie. 4. The Iowa wrestling room was perfect, carefully constructed over decades as a confessional, a place where pain could be traded for absolution. One grandchild swung back and forth in the background as Trump hung the medal around Gable, 72, who represented the US in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.. Gable's grandson Sammy, 6, leaned on the Resolute Desk and bent over nearly backwards.. Another grandson stared at the document pronouncing . None of them ever say this stuff to my face … I dont think much of people who would rather cry than do something about it. When asked by Al Gore to appear with him at an Iowa rally, Gable had a single question for the vice president: What is your position on Title IX? Someone says, "This match is over," which pushes Gable to the edge. Theres not much bad I can say about Dan except that hes a workaholic. People always ask me what its like being married to a famous person. They drove home, and Dan moved into her room, winning 162 straight matches before losing. They're thinking about downsizing. Today, Gable still resides in the Hawkeye State with his wife, Kathy. The scars on his damaged knees turned bright red and glistened in the blazing sun. Join Facebook to connect with Kathy Gable and others you may know. To his nine grandchildren, he is a jungle gym. It's almost like something we've looked up to.". One by one, his four daughters called. Then I met Dan at the 2012 Olympic Trials and pitch the idea to do a magazine article about his sister's murder. Kathy Carpenter was 19 when she married Gable, whom she met through a former boyfriend of hers. Even Iowa fans will get blas … they want to watch competitive matches and there arent many of those around., Bahr added: I wish Dan Gable would set his sights on the Russians and a world championship. "It might be.". Unsplash. She's not alive. McDonough got beat! The idea of the room kept him tethered to something, and he remained its alpha. It's part of their blood.". --Dan Gable. He swings open the door and steps back inside. He is fully himself again, filling up the leather calendar he takes everywhere. Follow him on Twitter at @wrightthompson. I was so narrow-minded. Dan Gable. "I don't know how long we'll keep up this wrestling stuff," he says. Why was the hardest dude on the planet crying because a wrestler he doesn't coach won a match? ", Gable works out in his home gym, needing to do his daily work before he rewards himself with a Mountain Dew. Just the other morning, a former Iowa wrestler saw Gable punishing an unsuspecting elliptical machine in the hotel gym. He jokes that the set of "Rocky" was stolen from him. This is the Gable family's favorite part, because it echoes their own lives: a general and his troops, happy to be finished with the battle but missing the fight. He got better, more dangerous. See what wrestling means out in the middle of the country and in places like it all over the world, where the thin line between survival and extinction is guarded by toughness. 1 thing I give them.. Like the Owings loss.". Id get hit in the mouth and bite through my cheeks. "Every once in a while," he tells them, "I'll be traveling with Dan and things like that will hit. Until high school, or maybe even college, Mackie thought the John Lennon song "Imagine" was written especially for a 1992 wrestling highlight video. Pain, Tomorrow May Never Come, Giving. Fishing is the only thing I love besides wrestling and my family, he says. Kathy L. GableYorkKathy L. (Trimmer) Gable, 57, passed away peacefully at her residence on Saturday, February 17, 2018. he yells, his voice sounding like a gut-shot deer looks, ragged from days of this. "I didn't get it all," he tells his friends, standing outside of the sauna, leaning in, "but I got a lot. He thought quitting would spare him the pain, but he was wrong. After the run, he drew a circle on the dusty country road and struck a familiar stance against an imaginary foe. They'd driven the block from a rented fishing cabin to a nearby pay phone. Katie Gable drove to Ames. "I'm gonna watch," he declares, then almost to himself adds, "I can't be such a chickenshit.". He wrestles anyway. His mother made the books, collecting mementos from his journey, starting with local papers, rising up to Sports Illustrated profiles. DAN GABLE PACES suite No. He didn't lose as a sophomore at Iowa State, or as a junior. In a stunning development Friday morning, Dan Gable announced that he was leaving his wife of 28 years over a disagreement about groceries. I dedicated my career and all my accomplishments to her. In 1974, Dan Gable married Kathy Carpenter and the couple has four daughters: Jenni, Annie, Molly and Mackenzie. WHEN THE GABLES finally arrive in Des Moines for the NCAA tournament, 37 days have passed since the IOC decision. Mackie rushes to find Kathy, who comforts him. His only defeat came in the NCAA finals his senior year. They're made of sweat . and that was all Dan could stand. Today, at 53, Gable has finally learned to relax a bit. The glory always meant more to me if I knew my parents and my sister would see it., He recalled pacing nervously in the dressing room before his Olympic matches and thinking, Diane is with me, too. View the profiles of people named Kathy Gable on Facebook. To the world, he's a champion. A guard checks his ticket and waves him into the suite level. Ive probably bitten through my tongue 1,000 times. Dan looked out his window as he listened and shuddered. Im not sure Id have that if Id lost the gold. Courtesy Gable Family, His life has been one of victory: He went 64 - 0 as a high school wrestler, 118 - 1 in college, won an Olympic gold medal in Munich without surrendering a point, won 15 national titles in 21 seasons as the Iowa coach. "Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit." - Dan Gable. "I almost feel -- not useless, but ", The IOC's decision is based on internal politics, he explains. The fight gave him focus. He fears he is powerless to create that change. Perhaps the greatest amateur wrestler in history, Dan Gable is synonomous with wrestling. he thought. Gable has weathered family tragedies that first struck when he was just 15. St. John is tied with 48 seconds left. At night, Dan heard the fights, the words burrowing into his memory, where they'd remain forever. "Kath! When we needed a new wrestling room back in 1973, Roy (Carver) came up with $10,000. The Gable statue outside Carver-Hawkeye Arena calls "stalling" on those who pass by. Zaputil wrestled at 118 and lost three times in the national finals. In Des Moines, McDonough is losing, and Dan is in a panic. He felt it immediately, a burn, and when he says "burn," his voice changes, like he's feeling it anew. WATERLOO Good things can come out of deep personal tragedy. Sometimes Gable just mouths words, intense, forgetting to speak. Married a decade ago, Kathy and Dan Gable have three daughters, Jennifer, 6; Annie, 4; and Molly, 8 months. Derek St. John, the Iowa 157 and last hope to salvage a national title from a tournament gone wrong, crouches at the center of the mat. She was 19. Gablesstory is one of grit and determination that didnt end with the winning of the Olympic gold. BOONE, Iowa Twelve of the top high school male and female wrestlers from the 2022-23 season were honored Wednesday at the 13th annual Dan Gable Ms. & Mr. Wrestler Awards banquet. He loves the two cats, which like to crawl on his legs. But few know the man behind the legend the father who sits patiently through a daughters dance recital, the husband who spends afternoons pruning his wifes raspberry bushes, the son who permits his parents to keep the gold medal on display in their home because it makes them happy.. Gable's definition of relaxation is what most people might consider the hardest work of their lives. It's freezing outside. After the IOC decision -- its ruling can be cemented or reversed in a September meeting, during which wrestling, squash or baseball and softball will be chosen -- the president of FILA, the international wrestling body, was pushed out by his own board. Then, in 1997, burned out and with chronic pain in his hip, he quit. His daughters are funny, pretty and intense. A journey into the world of Italy's racist soccer thugs. Former Hawkeye head wresting coach Dan Gable, who led the UI program for 21 years, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on Dec. 7. . Mike Duroe and Doughty watch him compose himself. Also, he had won six of his matches at . It was sewn up before it started and thats harmful to the sport., University of Michigan coach Dale Bahr calls Gable the best wrestling coach in the country by far, but he also says, It defuses competition and the interest when everybody knows whos going to win. Gouges and divots cover the bottom, like a target-practice soda can, deep scars and even holes, dozens of them. And he never stays bitter at anybody no matter what they say about him, he said. He began competing in sports at an early age, but realized that wrestling was his true passion around middle school when an unfortunate tragedy struck his family. One of their wrestlers was Dan Gable, who went on to copy much of their success at ISU while he led Iowa to 15 NCAA championships. That's bullshit. The temperature rises toward 200. His oldest, Jenni, called from her home up the road and described the look on her son's face when she told him. He wont just sit down and relax. That night, he didn't sleep a wink.