Naim Suleymanoglu

11'7"Combined height of Dennis Rodman (6'8") and Olympic weightlifting champ Naim Suleymanoglu (4'11"), prospective co-stars of Jean-Claude Van Damme's next action film.

Everything you saw was outsized, almost goofy. The vaults were so much higher, the times so much faster, the jumps so much longer that it was hard to believe these athletes were the same species as the rest of us....

It takes muscle, technique and a kit of nerve to put 413 pounds of iron over your head, especially when the tonnage represents roughly three times your body weight. The bar bows, red and green disks like locomotive...

Record setter Naim Suleymanoglu was weighed down by worries for his family