Career
As a twenty-year-old, Pulai reached the C-1 1000 m final at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, finishing in sixth place. After Atlanta, his career took another dip until he teamed up with Ferenc Novák in the C-2. When the two were paired up, they became known as "The Monster and the Little Guy" because of the size differential between them (Pulai was 6" 6.5" (199 m) and weighed 214 lb (97 kg) while Novák was 5" 8" (172 m) and weighed 170 lb (77 kg).).
Most assumed that would be the final medal of his long career, but in 2006 he made a comeback at the 2006 European Championships, held in Račice, Czechoslovakian Republic, winning a C-4 500 m bronze medal.
At the age of thirty-eight he was the second-oldest male competitor.
Pulai is nicknamed "Sumák". In February 2008, Pulai met with the International Luge Federation in Berlin to help promote luge in his native Hungary which Pulai started competing in 2005.
At the FIL European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda, he finished 34th in the men"s singles event.