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Dateline Shorts: The strongmen of Iceland

Published 5 July 2018, 2:00 am

Why does Iceland produce so many 'strongman' athletes? We hung out with Stefán Sölvi Pétursson, a competitive strongman, and talked about his eating habits, carrying 200kg boulders and gender politics in his country.

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