World’s strongest men to compete in Gimli at Icelandic Festival of Manitoba
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The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba is back for its first in-person festival following a two-year pandemic hiatus, and they're coming back stronger than ever.
Some of the world’s strongest men are coming to Gimlithis weekend.
The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba in Gimli — Islendingadagurinn to Icelanders — is back for its first in-person festival following a two-year pandemic hiatus, and they’re coming back stronger than ever.
The festival is partnering with four-time World’s Strongest Man champion Magnús Ver Magnússon to hold a world-class strongman event showcasing traditional Icelandic feats of strength.
The festival says professional strongmen from around the world will be taking part in the competition using natural elements like stones, trees and Icelandic and Viking-inspired implements.
“This weekend, you’ll see giant log lifts. You’ll see stone loading. You’ll see the Viking ships pulled,” Ver Magnússon tells 680 CJOB’s The Start.
“It’s fitting to the old-time strong man. Basically how it was — the toughest and strongest survived.”
Ver Magnússon said the two-day event will also see competitors throwing increasingly heavier sandbags, lifting stones and logs — one he says is “the biggest log in Canada — and doing deadlifts with weights he describes as “similar to the Flintstones.”
“It is going to be an amazing show and a lot of fun,” he said.
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