Some athletes live in the gym, training nonstop to become larger than life. Others achieve that legendary status just by showing up, because they are LITERALLY larger than life. These are the giants of their respective sports, colossal men and women who dwarf their competition and leave us wondering, “How are we even the same species?”
Andre the Giant stood at 7’4” and weighed a whopping… wait for it… 520 lb! His overwhelming size was a result of acromegaly which, unfortunately, led to an early death at the age of 46. But before he left us, he gave us the star turn as the gentle giant Fezzik in the classic film, “The Princess Bride.”