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I liked the video.

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Hmm she seems to have some sort of crisis. Cry for help in a public forum isn't really a good sign but she seems to be bit lost with her future plans.

There's not much else to do than to wish her all the best. If she decides to continue with her bodybuilding career, I'm sure that the fbb fan base will be more than supportive.

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I just hope she wears a belt under her t-shirt.

Why?

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Great athletes, great bodies, great shots. Shame though that you couldn't see much of the actual photos.

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Nice outfit.

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Really nice one. Thanks.

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Hmm I didn't make that Usain Bolt statement. And I've also agreed that the term professionalism is a bit joke in this matter.

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Yes, Jana (and Chyna) has been a lot in TV but it's an exception (a very good one). I don't see much female bodybuilders in Finnish television or magazines, and as long as I'm aware, the situation is quite the same in other countries – apart from Germany that is.

And I don't like the way that usually BBing is represented as an extreme thing. It's just a sport among others.

Then again, if FBBs are easy to market, how come they get so small awards?

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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.

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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.

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