It saddens me to announce that my special friend Franco Columbu passed away today August 30, 2019 in Italy. It was reported that he suffered a heart attack while swimming and consequently drowned just off the coast of San Teodoro, Sardinia, Italy. And I just got the chills writing this as "Teodoro" is my late father Efrain's middle name. Franco was so accomplished. During the span of his life he was a boxer, Olympic weightlifter, a powerlifter holding numerous world records, a professional bodybuilder winning the ultimate title of Mr. Olympia once in 1976 and again in 1981, and one of the strongest men in the world. He was a licensed Chiropractor, an author, an actor, a magazine cover model many times over and the best friend of The Oak (aka Arnold Schwarzenegger). He was a husband and a father and my friend on Facebook. Above is the last post I received from him just yesterday.
My heart is broken Sardinian Strongman.
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