I love all strength sports. Weightlifting is one of my favs, but I also love the raw brutality of power-lifting, or is it Powerlifting. Heheh. Anyway, I think these photos from a recent competition look tremendous. These pics make you want to either grab a barbell and go to town, or run in the opposite direction when you see one!
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Reprinted with kind permission from Laree and Dave Draper (thanks guys!)
From Dave Draper’s Post Column
The Christmas shopping countdown began seven weeks ago with Santa’s first Ho-ho TV jingle in late October… diamonds for her, plasma screen for him and iPods and videos games for the kids.
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The name of Leonid Taranenko might not raise an eyebrow in most social circles, but to anyone who is a strength aficionado the name of Leonid Taranenko is likely to inspire gasps, pauses of silence as well as more than a few bent knees from time to time. In short, the man is not only a legend in the sport of Olympic Weight Lifting, but he is simply one of the strongest men to have ever walked on the face of the planet. When all is said and done, he will go down as one of the top ten strongest men to have ever lived.
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I have been in the midst of a very long battle that started back in June, which included the release from my 6th, and hopefully last, hospital stay. Whew.
It has been a long, uphill battle and the journey is far from over friends, but I am glad to be able to sit here today and tell you that I am going to live to fight another day 
Workouts to come very soon. I have a lot to tell you and boy oh boy am I excited. Stay tuned!
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Awesome Franco Columbu Tribute
