26 January 2008

If you could have 5 minutes with your favourite sports star what would you ask?  How many hours do they train? What do they eat? Or how about their worst habit, their guiltiest pleasure and their favourite body part!! 

Weighing in at just over 120kg, and an imposing 1.96m tall, this weekend's 5-Minute Interviewee is a true heavy weight contender!  It is perhaps no surprise that this 28-year-old Estonian used to be a wrestler... but a wannabe popstar is harder to imagine! 

Despite the floppy blonde hair, perfect white smile, and love of nice cars and skinny women, this muscle bound hunk is more Man-Mountain than Boy-Band! 

As the Reigning World Discus Champion, and Beijing Olympic favourite, this is an athlete who knows what it takes to be the best.  An outspoken supporter of European Athletics anti-doping messages and a man who considers his Coach his most treasured possession, he works hard and takes his sport very seriously.  Yet somewhere between training camps he manages to fit in his passion for cars, ice cream and planing his trip to Mars with Mr Bean!!

Yes run, jump and throwers, it is that time again, so let the world around you just slip away, as you prepare to spend the next 5-minutes looking up in awe, at a big man, with big dreams, and even bigger ability, Estonia's gentle giant... Gerd Kanter!