Andy Comic is the tallest and fattest man at the Sevens, though you wouldn't know it from the picture here. The juggler, magician and entertainer was on stilts, making him 2.1 metres tall, for most of yesterday afternoon. Those that arrived early in the morning would've seen an even more outrageous version of Comic - on stilts and in a fat suit that made him look like he weighed 227 kilograms.
'I haven't fallen yet,' the Macau magic champion declared late yesterday afternoon. Having settled in Hong Kong just 11/2 years ago, this was his first Sevens experience. 'I've done the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the World Cup Rugby [on stilts] and the Sevens is the easiest event to do. People are so well behaved and so nice here.'
Granted, Comic said he had yet to venture into the South Stand. 'I'll do it tomorrow. I'm not sure if I'll make it through standing up. I'm hoping so, because I heard that there's a Chinese saying for falling down on the street and it's not very nice.'
