Pressured with a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a heap of debt, lovable failure Steve Barker (Knoxville) hotels to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be challenged bring home the gold and to rig the Olympics that are upcoming. But when Steve's fellow competitors make wise to the con, then they motivate him to grow into the greatest struggle of all.