«I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I have lived four whole lives».

In August '92, a previously unknown child from Himara wins the gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics and simultaneously the hearts of all of Greece, which welcomes him as a hero. Thirty years later, Pyrros Dimas meets journalist Nikos Efstathiou in his garden to share with him the narratives of a life so thrilling it resembles a novel.

Placing personal narrative at the center of the book, the first in-depth biography of the most successful weightlifter in global Olympic history attempts to focus on the man behind the legend. With the disarming straightforwardness that characterizes him, Dimas reveals the body behind the champion, the emotions behind the medals and their shine, but also the husband, the father, the immigrant, always remaining the Pyrros who laughs and cries with the same ease.

Alongside the narratives of the four-time Olympian emerge the observations and selections of the author, and together they co-create a journey where the thread of biography intertwines with the flow of history. In the portrait of the champion, the image of a Greece stumbling at the threshold of the 21st century is reflected, metabolizing its successes and disasters, seeking its heroes, and continuously reconstructing its dreams.