Strongman competition

Strongman competition

In the past couple of weeks we highlighted two nineteenth-century individuals who, I think, would have done very well in today’s professional sports. One demonstrated remarkable pitching control and the other had Olympian sprinting speed. And they did it all without training; it was just part of a day’s work.

Now let’s look at a group of eighteenth-century individuals and consider how they might have rated in a strongman competition.

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