Have to agree with you. Let's be honest, stop the insincerity and admit that people like things beeing big: big numbers, big lifts, big people and so on no matter what it takes. People still talk about how Ben Johnson was so incredible, but then when he cought up using steroids, he was suddenly a traitor. Yes, in a way he is, because he didn't follow the rules, but somehow people wan't to believe that is not true even though they know nowadays how the reality is. But they don't care. Performance-enhancing drugs are part of the scene, always was and always will.
But ant already said these well. I'm just agreeing with him. But I don't want to change this in to a roid conversation once again. Let's just enjoy what we have. But I still like to bring up that not the strongwoman or -man competitions are always held in the countries where you can use roids freely. European contest have been held in Norway and Sweden, and I don't know how the law goes there, but I have quite a solid guess that it is not legal stuff there.
The school teacher from Finland had the look they liked to sell and was very good in the competition. She came in just ahead of Robin Coleman for 2nd and behind Jill Mills. She used speed in the events she could. Not as much brute power, but still real strong. Forgot her name. She stopped after the 2nd year and that hurt. You need one or two lookers to be fair.
Heini Koivuniemi. Actually she was competing as long as until 2006. She didn't do very well anymore. She was not as strong as many of her rivals, but if I remember right, she was quite good in deadlift: over 200 kilos (440 lbs, for you cavemans
) with IPF-rules.
