Strongman by robotalk

2D • People • posted on Jul 14, 2004

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Description

In 1953 Doug Hepburn of Vancouver B.C. Canada won the World Weightlifting Championships --altho loved by fans --he was given a less than heroes treatment by his own city and country until after his death --the world weightlifting body allowed the 2003 World Weightlifting championships to be held in his honor in his home town of Vancouver--the event had images of Doug on huge screen thruout --the fans still remembered and applauded wildly --Doug was the first man on earth to ever bench press 500 lbs--and he wrote the course that the first man to bench 600 (Pat Casey of Calif) used to achieve this feat --the story of Doug's life is here "Srongman by Tom Thurston"

Comments (12)

violet

12:58AM | Thu, 15 July 2004

EXCELLENT WORK....!!! You are very good at painting portraits...!

gallimel

2:34AM | Thu, 15 July 2004

great and artistic in full.

Mikeangelo

4:55AM | Thu, 15 July 2004

Great painting work again, well done. Dave

deevee

6:37AM | Thu, 15 July 2004

Thanks for this Robo! I certainly remember reading of the exploits of Bob when i dabbled with weights as a teenager. This is outstanding work, keep them coming!

Hopalong

2:54PM | Thu, 15 July 2004

...Take a look, read, and sigh:
Was that CanaDEEan dry?

[Just got the ebot for this today. Thought you'd like to know. As you say (and "pleased as punch" was scary, warn't he?), found it anyway. All the best and later....RV]