'Gentle Giants': World's Strongest Men Defy Stereotypes

Fuente: International Business Times

The World's Strongest Man competition was first held in 1977 at Universal Studios in California AFP Eddie Williams is a schoolteacher from Monday to Friday and a wedding singer on weekends. In his spare time, he lifts enormously heavy weights as he competes to be the world's strongest man. Some people think weightlifters are "a lot of angry people who just like to throw weight around," the 420-pound (190-kilogram) Australian told AFP, but "I can be, you know, a happy person, and still be able to lift heavy weights.