An aging wrestling champion tries to revive a myth from ancient Greece: the myth of Milo of Croton from the 6th BC, a champion wrestler, a mountain of a man who would eat 5 kilos of meat, 5 kilos of bread and drink 10 liters of wine at every meal. This giant of the Antique has had such a superhuman strength that he once carried a four-year-old bull on his shoulders before slaughtering, roasting, and devouring it in one day. He was also said to have achieved the feat of lifting the bull by starting in childhood, lifting and carrying a newborn calf and repeating the feat daily as it grew to maturity.
Ageing wrestler Kostas Avramis, from Trikala in Central Greece, and Christos Kollias, professor of Exercise Physiology at the National University of Athens, decided to revive the Milon Legend. they shot a film that they plan to sent to the International Olympic Committee and the World Wrestling Federation to upgrade the specific sports in order to “create a World Wrestling Center in our country that will harmoniously combine sports, philosophy and music”.
What did they do? They had Avramis in the position of Milon in a film that could have the title: Animal Abuse from the Antique to the 21st century.
Kostas Avramis repeatedly abuses calves to show how strong he is.
Again and again he pulls the calves violently by the tail and the head. He drags the animals with a rope or throws them to the ground and cripple them.
The champion of abuse lifts a calf and puts the terrified animal on his shoulder.
The video was uploaded by a local TV channel on YouTube on October 25th. The reporter had only praises for the incredible man and his muscle strength.
Animal rights website zoosos.gr informed the Panhellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation and the outrage was fired.
Zoosos plans to inform also the International Olympic Committee and the World Wrestling Federation and ask them their position on the issue stressing that the abuse of animals in Greece is a criminal offense and that such practices do not promote neither sports nor any sign of culture.
Last night I saw on a TV report about the issue, a man (maybe from the local wrestling club?) saying “What’s wrong with this? Ancient Greeks treated animals like that.”
PS Horrible and disgusting
kostas is strong
The world’s admiration for ancient Greeks is based on their achievements in science, philosophy, literature and political organisation. Nobody even condones — let alone celebrates — the primitive and barbaric practices that existed among the Romans and Greeks over 2,000 years ago.
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Frankly, Greeks had better rapidly condemn this evil before it takes Greece’s reputation even lower than it already is… Just terrible behaviour, which is illegal in almost every country of the world. It is what you would expect of ISIS perhaps.