In the U.S. Rollino Joe was a legend. He would establish exceptional records in weightlifting. Now, head has finally caught him – at the age of almost 104 years.

“When he shook your hand, he almost broke it,” says the grocer, James Romeo, who runs a shop in Rollino’s New York Neighborhood. Horsepower was the hallmark of Joe rollinos. But he was not a normal weightlifter, who showed his abilities in the Olympics or world championships to the test. No, Joe Rollino was famed for brilliant showmanship. He lifted weights with his teeth incredibly high, with only one finger or carried heavy loads on his back. With his teeth, he brought it to 237 kilograms on his finger hung 317 pounds on his back and he should have moved 1600 kilograms.

He was known as the big Joe Rollino, and he was really great. He was a member of the Coney Iceland Polar Bear Club, Louis Scarella over Rollino. A club, who had dedicated themselves to the winter swimming in ice-cold water. In this discipline stood out Rollino. He is reported to have saved in the ’50s in a park in Brooklyn in the winter, two people from a body of water. This, after the police had called off an operation because they did not have the necessary materials. Such stories abound about Rollino exist.

Legends

Whether they are all true, remains open. Legendary, but they are. Again and again they were told, Scarella. And they are too good not to tell them. In the words of an Italian proverb? “If it is not true, it is at least well invented.” Similarly, it is with his weight-lifting records. They are documented by any recognized organization, to stand in the books of relevant clubs. Nevertheless, his friends called him “at the peak of his career, the” strongest man in the world.

Rollino and impressed his fellow men not only with his muscles. He apparently lived very ascetic. He ate no meat, did not smoke nor drink. Well into old age, he took his eight-kilometer run, and in all weathers.

Hit by car

Well Rollino is no more. He, on 19 March 1905 saw the light of day, yesterday died tragically. While walking in his New York neighborhood, he was hit and killed by a car and to report how American media. In its online edition of The New York Times devoted a Rollino Findings on the front page with large picture.