[music playing]
[cheering]
For our final challenge this week,
we're taking on William Bankier's famous piano lift.
So we all know that William Bankier
was famous for doing the Tomb Of Hercules
with the piano and the orchestra.
The Tomb of Hercules.
It's a supportive lift.
He's not actually lifting it.
It's sitting on his knees and on his elbows.
And the position he was in, none of us can get into.
It's like kryptonite to modern day strongman.
We're too big.
Instead of doing that, I thought we'd take it a step up.
We pick these pianos up and race with them.
All the guts are still in them.
See.
And so, they're all rigged up at over 600 pounds.
[cheering]
[laughter]
We made the local newspaper.
We made the local television.
That's why everybody came out.
Honestly, we don't even get that many people
to come out to a lot of the World's Strongest Man events.
There must have been 2,000 or 3,000 people there,
lining the entire street.
And the energy they gave off was awesome.
Brian, we know you're on one leg now.
We got you one just in case, but we figured you're probably
not going to be able to do it.
Yeah, I tried to warm up this morning.
And It's just not ready.
I am actually really unhappy that
I cannot compete in this piano race because of the hamstring.
I mean I'm pretty good at yokes or carries.
I hold the world record in the super yoke.
I know that I could smoke these guys at this.
But I think I'm going to have to be referee to make sure you
guys don't cheat, of course.
[cheering]
There's a huge difference between supporting
weight and lifting weight.
And there's an even bigger difference
between lifting that weight and running with it.
When we were sitting up the piano run,
we saw this ambulance pull in.
And that's when I thought, should we really be doing this?
I'm the oldest one.
I'm kind of the OG of the whole thing.
And I've never carried a piano before.
I think I can smoke these guys.
[cheering]
Athletes, take your position.
Ready, go.
[cheering]
Come on, guys, come on.
When you have a piano on your back,
you're not really worried about what the other guys are doing.
You just want to get to that finish line
as quick as possible.
And we have a winner.
[cheering]
After I won the race, I felt really restricted.
I couldn't breathe.
Get me out.
At no point did I see Oberst or Nick
at the side of me, which meant they were
behind, where they should be.
Keep going, keep going.
I see Eddie win, and in my mind,
I was, like, you should just put this down.
That would be the smart thing to do right now.
Let's go.
Almost finish it.
Let's go, buddy.
But for the sake of William Bankier,
and the history of strongmen, I was finishing that race.
And down.
Come on, Nick.
Come on, Nick, you can do it.
Yeah.
Can't breathe.
Get him out.
Let's get him out of here.
Get him out.
[sirens]
He's having problems breathing.
Belly breathe.
Just push-- deep as you can go.
You're doing good.
After Robert and Eddie finished the race,
all the attention went to Nick, because he was
having a serious medical issue.
We didn't know what was wrong with him.
Now if you can do in through your nose,
and out through your mouth, it will
control that breathing, OK?
Oh, my god.
That was a serious situation for Nick.
When your heart's beating that fast that you can't collect
yourself, that's dangerous.
Good job.
You, too, man.
Good job, buddy.
I don't know how they do that.
Let me take a hit of that.
I want to finish.
Can I just start back in? - No.
No. We're done.
We're done.
Time's up.
It's all done, Nick.
I was a little worried about Nick.
But when I heard him keep trying to fight people off
so he could finish the race, I knew he was going to be OK.
The thing was like just so tight across here.
I just felt like I couldn't inhale
and get oxygen into my lungs.
And it's the first time I've ever
lifted anything where I actually started to panic
because I couldn't breathe.
And that scared the daylights out of me.
Today's winner of the piano race, Eddie Hall.
I feel like we brought William Bankier justice,
getting the pianos on our back, having to race down the street.
[cheering]
It was really nice to give a little treat to the town
today, all the kids and everybody.
We have to take.
And that's what we love to do.