Enormous Athletes Who Shattered Records with Their Astounding Size

The Olympics

Bacheler was a two-time Olympian, but that didn’t come easily. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he came down with dysentery and couldn’t compete. In the 1972 Olympics in Munich, he finished ninth in the marathon and got ill due to the differing climate. 

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