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Franco Columbu

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Franco Columbu

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  • Was best man at Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's wedding in April 1986.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger's training partner.
  • Trained Sylvester Stallone for Rambo II : La Mission (1985).
  • Is in the Guinness Book of World Records for blowing up a hot water bottle by just blowing into it.
  • Credited as director of movie within a movie in Last Action Hero (1993) starring his friend Schwarzenegger.
  • Appeared on the sleeve of Grand Funk Railroad's 1974 album "All the Girls in the World Beware!!!" with fellow-bodybuilders Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Zane. Band member faces were cleverly superimposed on their muscle-bound bodies.
  • During the first ever "worlds strongest man" competition, he dislocated his knee during the refrigerator-carrying race. The scene was not edited for CBS and was shown and even instantly replayed. During an interview immediately following the race (while lying on a stretcher) he claimed that they told him it was broken but he said being a chiropractor he knew it was just dislocated.
  • Bodybuilding Titles: 1976 Mr. Olympia 1981 Mr. Olympia
  • Inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

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