GT138 - Wrestler and the Golden Mud of Kolhapur

Wrestler can't stop wrestling everything around him — pillows, doors, hedges, the wind — and believes every single win belongs to his homemade tinfoil WORLD CHAMP belt, not to himself. Armed with a cardboard championship belt and an undefeated record, he tumbles from Goop World all the way to a golden mud pit in Kolhapur, India, where wrestlers train every morning in earth mixed with ghee, buttermilk, and turmeric — and the best young wrestler in the akhara is already waiting for him in the pit. This audio story for kids is packed with jaw-dropping real-world facts, genuine edge-of-your-seat danger, and one wildly unexpected moment where Wrestler's most stubborn belief turns out to be exactly the thing he has to let go of.

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