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  1.                                 In high school, college, 
  2.                                 international, and Olympic 
  3.                                 wrestling competition, Dan 
  4.                                 Gable suffered only one 
  5.                                 defeat. That came in 
  6. 1970, in the final of the NCAA 142-pound 
  7. championship, which was also the final 
  8. match of his college career at Iowa State 
  9. University. That loss ended a string of 176 
  10. consecutive victories during his high school 
  11. and college careers. 
  12.  
  13. Dan didnΓÇÖt let a single defeat stop him. In 
  14. 1971, he won a gold medal at the Pan 
  15. American Games, in Cali, Colombia, and
  16. took the world championship at 149.5
  17. pounds, in Sofia, Bulgaria. At the 1972
  18. Olympics, competing in the lightweight
  19. (149.5-pound) category, he won all his
  20.