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Weldon takes a belt

By Steve Wright, Pete Robbins, Lynn Burkhead and Sam Eifling
ESPNOutdoors.com

Saturday, August 9, 2008

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — With the Olympic Games opening in Beijing, China, it was only fitting that BASS honor the greatest weightlifter in its history Friday night. PHOTO GALLERY Check it out Trip Weldon's skinny body belies the fact he has the strength to lift 5 tons of bass. But the 18-year BASS Tournament Director did just that in Zapata, Texas, this year, in becoming the bass fishing equivalent of the Soviet Union's famed lifter, Vasily Alexeyev. Weldon w ...

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