[AlexG]

In case you missed it, the '09 Olympia was held this past wkend.

Link: RX Muscle Forums – Ms. Olympia as I see it

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[mistaricsta]

In case you missed it, the '09 Olympia was held this past wkend.

The only reason I hnew it was coming up was because I'm a member of Melissa Coates' mailing list, and she was saying she was going to be there(spectating, of course).

[cpbell0033944]

In case you missed it, the '09 Olympia was held this past wkend.

Link: RX Muscle Forums – Ms. Olympia as I see it

I presume I needn't ask who won the Ms Olympia?

[BlackKusanagi]

Iris….Again.

[cpbell0033944]

Iris….Again.

Haha, I wrote that I needn't ask who won before I clicked the link because it was so obvious that Iris would win – the idiots at IFBB can't stop themselves from wrecking the pursuit of Pro FBBing by voting for her each year.  I have nothing against Iris as looking as she does has netted her 6 titles, but, if the IFBB really wanted to arrest the downward slide they'd reward a less extreme appearance.  It's evident that they have given-up on FBBing in favour of Figure which has great physiques but isabout as exciting as watching paint dry.

The prize money now (4K US$ for fourth place, apparently) is so low now that the term "Professional" is now a joke as the women have to do something else to make ends meet.  Either the IFBB should remove all pretence of there being a Pro division, or (preferably) they need to change the judging criteria and reward less extreme looks to bring back sponsorship and media coverage.  Perhaps then the prize money can actually be worth the bother and it might reduce the seedy side of FBBing which does the sport no credit.  End of rant.

[Trash Boat]

Well as I see it, bodybuilding is about being big, wanting to be big; pushing the boundaries. That is anything else than a natural condition for the human body – especially for women – and only a certain cult really likes the way they look. In men it's not that big of a problem since muscularity is considered to be manly quality – even when it's pushed a bit over the edge – but in women the public starts to wonder what's going on. Incoherence about sex, is this "right", and the abnormal look criterias make a person not familiar with the sport react with distaste.

Media doesn't want to show anything unusual what might irritate everyday normal guy. Everything needs to round and already chewed, not to force to think and reevaluate ones values.

Thus the awards are what they are due to lack of public interest. Have to agree with cpbell about whether can this be called professional sport.

I don't actually agree that judge criteries should be changed. FBBing and Figure aren't competing with each others; yes, they are both beauty contests but they have different kind of approach what human body should look like. Both are needed and I wouldn't want to see something what mixes them.

I think the way sport is marketed would need some work. Get away from the freakish point of view and really try to show that having alternative kind of look standards doesn't make you that different.

[Trash Boat]

I don't know what kind of look do you prefer, but I think Iris won fair and square. If this photo wont speak for itself, no words will do that either. 

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I think not everything is said yet, I want to rant some more.

As I've understood, some want to get back to the good old days. Cory Everson, Rachel Mclish and so on, but I just find it weird that in other sports there would be bigger and more muscular competitors: it's just against the whole idea of bodybuilding.

Performance-enhancing drugs can be dangerous. I don't have a solution for this. It's impossible to control it and it affects especially to the female body quite much in both positive and negative ways – you just can not take some wanted properties thus it makes it fingerprints in faces, voices etc.

So as I see it, real FBBing has always been a cult sport and thou it shall stay. It might sound unfair but there isn't really much to do. Not every athlete can make big money and be in the public but at least they can choose to do and be what they want.

[cpbell0033944]

I agree that FBBing is an extreme sport, but it is now at risk of reductio ad absurdum because of the fact that the commercial aspect which made the sport more popular and brought the coverage and sponsorship that made the financial reviews worth the personal sacrifice are disappearing like rainwater in the desert.  Soon, Pro FBBing will be a couple of women posing in someone's front room with a camcorder – exaggeration I know, but at what point does everybody say "enough!"?

[chris10000]

Media doesn't want to show anything unusual what might irritate everyday normal guy.

really ??  ;D
how is it possible jana linke-sippl permanently in tv ?
chyna , also very big, in the past in all tv shows ?

if you think, smaller girls more marketable in the media…how it comes i dont see them there ??

[chris10000]

As I've understood, some want to get back to the good old days. Cory Everson, Rachel Mclish and so on, but I just find it weird that in other sports there would be bigger and more muscular competitors: it's just against the whole idea of bodybuilding.

i think most of the people that tell this stopped thinking in the old ages  ;D
what most of them forget :
rachel was the best of her time…and in her time also there was discussion if she was to big for a woman
the same with cory

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