We are in beautiful Norway for the kick off of the 2017 MLO Strongman Champions League season. With partly cloudy weather and lots of snow, we have the perfect scenery for the athletes, who prepare for the first contest of the year.
In this last episode, the best athletes compete in Pole Push, Deadlift, Forward Hold and Loading.
We reach Dubai where we will crown the new champion for SCL 2016. This is part one of the world finals.
This stage sees the strongmen visit Vaasa, Finland. Residents here are familiar with the competition because some of the SCL icons are from their country.
The competitors battle it out in the special event, the Atlas Steel Stone. This stone is made completely from iron and cannot be touched with any support.
Bulgaria hosts the next stage of the SCL. Current leader in the World Series is Matjaz Belsak, youngest competitor and strongest man of Slovenia.
The SCL train stopped in Zlatibor for the stage 6 of the MLO SCL. 11 compete for the title in the home country of legendary Ervin Katona.
This year Lauri Nami joins the starting list, back after last year's injury in Romania
Stage four is an epic competition and a few surprises. With 14 strongmen from all over the world, one newcomer left quite an impression.
For the third stage of SCL world series 2016, the athletes compete in Kaunas for the SCL Log Lift World Championships.
This stage is in Martinique and eight strongmen from all over the world will compete for the last chance to gather points before the world grand finals in December.
The 13th stage of Strongman Champions League is in Maia, Portugal. The competition is at the “Powerexpo” – one of the best sport and fitness events in Portugal.
This next episode of the Strongman Champions League is hosted in Lithuania and sees us getting one step closer to the final.
The 11th stage is the SCL Log Lift World Championships in Lithuania. In this championship, each competitor must lift three different weights overhead. Zydrunas Savickas is the current world record holder in the Log Lift.
The 10th stage of this year's competition in Strongman Champions League is held in the Romanian city of Sibiu where the 12 strongmen continue to compete for the title.
In this stage we go into the mountains of Austria to find out through six grueling events who is the strongest in the land of Alps. Martin Wildauer, current World Champion 2014 and Austrian local is competing alongside Zageris, Radzikowski, Belsak and many others.
We are now half way through the SCL 2015 and getting closer to the grand world finals in Turkey. The eighth stage is in Poland, the home country of the current leader Krzysztof Radzikowski.
Holland is hosting 12 different countries with 14 of the strongest men in the world for the third stage of the Strongman Champions League.
The second stage of Strongman champions league will be hosted in Germany, by FIBO - the leading international trade show for fitness, wellness and health worldwide with 300,000 visitors in four days. Special implements like the biggest log in the world or the special Bavarian stone lift are not only a challenge, but also an opportunity for new personal, national and world records.
Across seven rivers, through mountains and forests, 12 strongmen go to toughest places to find out who is strongest Viking in the World and open a new season of Strongman champions league for 2015. Events like the Hercules Hold, Yoke Race and pulling a real Viking ship are some of the ingredients of this fantastic show.