Sports Illustrated: With eye on London, wrestling icon Sanderson to announce comeback

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Brian Cazeneuve (Sports Illustrated)
06/09/2011


In his days of coaching Penn State to its first national team title this season, Cael Sanderson was on the mat every day. "Old man," his young wrestlers would tell him. "What have you got?"

But it was never the bruising and banging that got to Sanderson, six years removed from his Olympic gold medal and nine years away from completing his reign as an unbeaten collegian for Iowa State at 159-0. No, to be honest, it was the itching.

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