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| Wena’ of all the weight-lifters

was a fellow named Atlas,
students of Greek
mythology. If you’re weak on
mythology, Atlas was a giant
Titan who rebelled against Zeus
(Jupiter). Zeus conquered Atlas
and made him bear the heavens
on his shoulders, Atlas held them
for centuries, though, .as the re-
cord book says, ‘he grew faint
with weariness.”

One day Perseus flew by (Per-
seus. was the kid with the winged
sandals) and Atlas noticed that
the flyboy was carrying Medusa’s
head, which turned anyone who
saw it*into stone. (Another ver-
sion is that she had a face that
would stop a clock.) Atlas beg-
ged Perseus to let him look at
it, and was changed into the At-
las Mountains.

So endeth our first-lesson in
mythology. Any questions? Oh.
Well, Medusa was a Gorgon (you
know, of the Gorgons). Perseus
was the son of Zeus. Yes, he
finally flew home and married An-

known to

|dromeda, turned all his enemies

into stone, and lived happily ever
after. There are also four seasons,
spring, summer, autumn and win-
ter, which, as Henri Murger said,
was the cause of the retreat from
Moscow. How did geography get
into this lesson, anyway?

* * «

The Atlas of 1953, of course, is
Vancouver’s own Doug Hepburn,
who won the world’s heavyweight
weight-lifting title at Stockholm,
beating out the American, John
Davis.

Almost overlooked in all the
local huzzas for Doug was the
sports story of the week: the So-
viet Union’s triumph over the
United States in the international
weight-lifting competition. Final.
score: USSR, 25; USA, 22.

Had Davis beaten Hepburn, the
U.S, would have tallied the most

points. The Americans wanted to
win so desperately that they pro-

tested Hepburn’s “snatch” but of-
ficials rejected the unsportsman-
like squawk. :

* . *

Hepburn, who had a hard time
raising the $900 he needed to
get to Stockholm, will probably
have City Council out with the
welcome mat on his return.

Canadian Olympic officials
should duck for cover, though.
Had Hepburn been included on
the 1952 Olympic team he would
have won a second gold medal
for Canada (a 17-year-old trap-
shooter won our only gold medal
at Helsinki).

* ~ *

The world’s strongest man is
26 years old, stands 5 feet 9 inches
and weighs 280 pounds, soaking
wet (he often gets soaking wet on
his job as a life guard). His
mother, Mrs. William Foster, re-
married and living at 3617’ West
Twelfth, stands only 5 feet 212
inches and weighs just 100 pounds.
She’s net much at weight-lifting,
though she used t@ have no
trouble lifting Doug when he was

‘a baby.

Hepburn was born with a club
foot, which the kids at Kitsilano
used to make fun of. He weigh-
ed 145 pounds when he took up
weight-lifting and resolved to
make himself a mass of muscle.

* * *

At Stockholm the Vancouver
boy hoisted a total of 1030%
pounds in his three lifts; 369
pounds in the;press, 29742 pounds
in the snatch and 36334 in the
jerk.

A sprained ankle almost caus-
ed Hepburn to withdraw from the
big competition. But at the last
minute he decided to compete.

Note something else. Hepburn.
had no coach along with him. He:

had barely enough money to make
the trip. But in spite of these
handicaps, he triumphed.

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