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Team Foxcatcher is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jon Greenhalgh telling the story of billionaire John du Pont's involvement in the shaping of the US Olympic Wrestling Team by building expensive training facilities on his home property, called 'Foxcatcher'.
Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz, the younger brother of Dave Schultz, wrote Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold. [49] [50] ESPN Films featured the story of du Pont and Team Foxcatcher in the 2015 30 for 30 series film The Prince of Pennsylvania. The film features ...
The film's plot is loosely based on the events surrounding multimillionaire E.I. du Pont family heir and wrestling enthusiast John du Pont's 1986 recruitment of two 1984 U.S. Olympic gold medalist wrestlers, Mark Schultz and his older brother David, to help coach U.S. wrestlers for participation in national, world, and Olympic competition, and ...
Schultz trained at the Foxcatcher center while preparing for another Olympic bid, as well as coaching the wrestling team. On January 26, 1996, he was shot and killed by John du Pont, the owner of the center. Du Pont had exhibited bizarre and threatening behavior for an extended period preceding the murder. Schultz was 36 at the time of his death.
The Du Pont Foxcatcher Farm estate was located in Newtown. Following John Du Pont's murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in 1996, Du Pont was arrested by the Newtown Township Police Department. [45] The events were made into the 2014 film Foxcatcher. Aronimink Golf Club is located within Newtown Square. The course is considered one of the ...
The brothers from Kennard-Dale High wrestled 'together' and dominated in the opening of Friday's U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials at Penn State. Brothers rule: How Chance Marsteller, John Stefanowicz ...
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Before the 1988 Olympics, Mark was working as an Assistant Coach at Villanova University and competing for multi-millionaire John E. du Pont's wrestling club, Team Foxcatcher. In 1987, du Pont threatened Mark by saying "I'm going to ruin your career" in a locker room, in front of wrestler Dan Chaid. [12] Mark quit wrestling after the 1988 Olympics.