Carlin Isles‘ rugby career began with a 5 a.m. phone call and about a 1,000-mile drive.
“I basically cried the whole way,” Isles told Dave Kaplan on CSN Chicago’s SportsTalk Live. “If this don’t work out, I’m screwed.”
Isles said he then had about $500 to his name. Now Isles, dubbed the fastest man in rugby, is on track to compete in the first Olympic rugby tournament since 1924 next year in Rio.
First, Isles and the U.S. men will face world power Australia at Soldier Field in Chicago on Saturday (7:30 p.