(스포츠) 라트비아의 보디빌더
(스포츠) 라트비아의 보디빌더
And finally tonight, Steve Hartman specializes in the softer stories on our broadcast, but this week he puts some real muscle into his reporting. As once again with some help from above, he set out to prove everyone in the world has a story. When the Shuttle Atlantis took off last November to resupply the space station, it was also carrying something for CBS. A highly sophisticated news gathering tool called an inflatable globe. Its purpose? To help astronaut Jeff Williams determine where my next story lies, which in this case, is this place. A town in the former soviet state of Latvia called Liepaja.
Liepaja is a port town of roughly 90,000 people which I had to narrow down to one. “And Sveiduks” Maris Sveiduks told me to meet him at his gym where the first thing I noticed. First thing you can't help but notice is that the guy is built. And get this! He's 50, 50 years old with arms that defy sleeves and a back like a relief map입체지도 of Switzerland. Handsome, lovely wife, beautiful family. From a man's perspective, there's a lot to hate about Maris Sveiduks. But fortunately, there's a lot to love about his story.
As a kid, Maris was diagnosed with Hepatitis간염. It left him scrawny앙상한 and weak which is why this struck him like it did. The movie “Hercules.” Maris says seeing bodybuilder Steve Reeves was the pivotal중심축이 되는 moment of his life. "I decide I want to be like him. And I will be like him." Unfortunately, Maris’ body wasn't so much like Hercules. He had no clue how to begin training. And there wasn't a soul사람 in communist Latvia who would dare teach him.
Of all the things the Communist Party was paranoid피해망상적인 about, perhaps the most bizarre기이한 was body building. It was fine with Olympic weight lifting, but body building was deemed여기다 too American and outlawed. ‘They can remember you. You was this guy who likes western culture. So you are not like we want.” Undeterred단념하지않는, young Maris turned to the black market. Sailors would often smuggle in contraband밀수품 which is how Maris got his very first Muscle Mag, cost him a week's wages.