‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Claims He Was Robbed In World’s Strongest Man Competition

If you’re familiar with “Game of Thrones” character Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, then you can guess that he’s probably one of the largest, strongest men in the world. However, he’s not the strongest man, and he’s not too thrilled about that.

Icelandic actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is enormous, coming in at 6-foot-9 and 416 pounds, and has won Iceland’s Strongest Man competition every year since 2011 and was crowned Europe’s Strongest Man in 2017. However, Björnsson finished just shy of first place in the World’s Strongest Man competition in Botswana on Sunday because of what he believes was a referee mistake.

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While we admittedly aren’t the best judges of the Viking Press, we’ll go ahead and say if Björnsson wants to call himself the World’s Strongest Man, not too many people will be willing to challenge him.

Eddie Hall, a Brit whom Björnsson beat in Europe’s Strongest Man event, was named the winner.

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