It is impossible to be a successful shotputter or weightlifter without a certain amount of sheer muscle.
I was a weightlifter, he was a weightlifter.
Helfgott, his fellow survivor, represented England in two Olympic Games as a weightlifter.
Throughout the wake, Mr. Rollino's friends, relatives and neighbors stood at the back of the chapel and in the lobby beyond it, struggling to define the life of a Coney Island strongman, longshoreman, $5-a-fight boxer, World War II veteran, Atlantic ice-water swimmer, weightlifter, churchgoer and neighborhood physical-fitness trainer.
"I really do not know," the weightlifter says when asked whether his message is being heard.
In contrast, my first impression of Cash, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers RMTT), is that of a mild mannered historian, enthusiastic rather than forceful and certainly not a weightlifter.
The weightlifter Zoe Smith today had her funding appeal rejected by British Weightlifting following a meeting with its chairman, Jonathan Fuller.
Here's Reid observing a weightlifter in the 1979 poem "Baldanders": "Glazed, like a mantelpiece frog, / he strains to become // the World Champion (somebody, answer it!) / Human Telephone".
A former basketball star, he worked as an artist in Paris before returning in 1997 to become minister of culture in a coalition government led by Ilir Meta (a former weightlifter) and his ex-communist Socialists.
A soaring murder rate (the country's top weightlifter was a recent victim), family breakdown and chronic levels of personal debt are standard topics of conversation in homes and on buses that ply the capital.
The day before, the president of Nauru, Marcus Stephen (a Commonwealth gold-medal-winning weightlifter) stood down after allegations that he took kickbacks on earnings from phosphate exports.
