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World’s Strongest Man 2013 Final 3:00pm EST USA Jan 2nd, 2013: Live Streamin

 

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World’s Strongest Man 2013 Final 3:00pm EST USA: Watch Live

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+5HRS FOR LONDON UK – MINUS 3HRS FOR LOS ANGELES

1st	Zydrunas Savickas	49 points
2nd	Vytautas Lalas	44.5 points
3rd	Hafthor Bjornsson	42.5 points
4th	Brian Shaw	40 points
5th	Mike Jenkins	38.5 points
6th	Krzysztof Radzikowski	32.5 points
7th	Terry Hollands	28.5 points
8th	Jean Francois Caron	21.5 points
9th	Johannes Arsjo	19.5 points
10th	Ervin Katona	9.5 points

It’s always nice when the winner isn’t known until the very last event, and in fact Lalas had led from the second event all the way through to this last event, before he was beaten by the mighty Savickas. It was a great showing from Lalas and I’ll be shocked if he never goes on to win a WSM title or two for himself. Hafthor Bjornsson is one to look out for too, and if he can keep improving and we get a fully fit Shaw, Hollands and Poundstone in 2013 then it could be one of the all time great competitions.

My one big complaint, apart from the commentary and presenting which saw those involved making awful puns and never referring back to what has happened in previous heats, is the length of the programme. At just 1 hour, with the adverts taken out we only got a little over 40 minutes of the actual programme. Remove the event intros and leaderboard analysis and we actually see very little of the athletes competing. In fact we saw so little of Ervin Katona that it was only looking back at the results that I realised he pulled out during the 5th event. If they can’t get more coverage on television then I would be more than happy to pay for a DVD/Blu-ray release showing the competition in it’s entirety. Hell, make it a 3 disc set and show some more footage from the qualifiers, because we don’t see much of those either. Speaking of DVDs – if like me you are a huge geek for World’s Strongest Man, then you’ll be pleased to know you can buy WSM 80s and 00s (there should be an 90s set too but it’s out of stock currently) sets as well as Giants Live DVD sets over on the official World’s Strongest Man website. I can’t recommend these sets enough, to be able to look back and see the likes of Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Geoff Capes, Magnus Ver Magnusson and Mariusz Pudzianowski in action is fantastic.

I’ve kept this year’s final on my planner as I hope to watch it with my little boy, something I used to do with my Dad when I was just a little kid too. Christmas and New Year just wouldn’t be the same without World’s Strongest Man and long may it continue.