2014 Olympia

[Sar-Net]

Without question the heat that Iris has been getting is unwarranted, it's not her fault or any of the other athletes for that matter.  ....snip....

I have to agree Iris is not the problem with Female Bodybuilding, nor for the most part the women, other than they should have stepped up to confront the IFBB, Weider Group, and the other powers that be in the bodybuilding realm and demanded a set of real rules etched in stone of what a muscular body should look like. 

These rules should take into account all factors including the fact women and men need differing levels of body fat to be healthy and over dieting to the same levels as men is not safe for a woman, so a slightly softer look has to be set for women.  Kina more like cut/ripped is good, shredded is not.  Things like bloated guts, cottage cheese thighs are definitely not bodybuilding.  Now I'm not talking limiting muscle growth, other than to the levels their individual frame will aesthetically take.  And that's another serious point, bodybuilding is about aesthetics, symmetry, shape, etc. just as much as shear muscle mass.   

I think the powers that be just don't get what a muscular body should look like any more(The winner of the Mr Olympia is a prime example, he has a lot of bulk but looks like shit, no aesthetics, no symmetry, no shape, but he does have an uneven bloated gut with an alien creature ripping out his belly button.  I can't believe former champion bodybuilders, like Arnold for one, are not on the talk show circuit ripping the IFBB a new one.)   Maybe the powers that be in the bodybuilding world never did have any idea what a muscular body should look like, but things did seem to be better up until the mid 90's or so.  I remember things like TV coverage, advertising featuring FBB's, etc.

Since Iris has said she is retiring, if there is a Female bodybuilding section at the Olympia next year we will have to see what happens.  Though my guess is it will be twigagories only.

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[luvpornandaddicted]

I agree that Alina should have won this year and not Iris - it was a lot more clear cut than last year.

I also think Candice Keene got robbed in the Figure division this year.

[Unicron]

Wow all the Iris apologists out in force this morning. Are you guys all on the IFBB bankroll? Iris was BETTER than Alina, you say?
Disregard the photos, the photos do not tell the story; go and watch the VIDEO of the final comparisons and posedown. I DARE
you to say after that that Iris was the better bodybuilder. Alina smoked her, most especially when it came to conditioning, where Alina was just
perfect. Iris's legs were weak, she had no abs, her conditioning was off; her upper body was out of balance with her lower
body. The only area where Iris was marginally better was from the back.

The video tells the whole story. Alina was the better fbb that day, plain and simple, and deserved to win the title.

 

Once again, Iris is an amazing athlete and I admire her accomplishments, but I think her final victory and the end of her reign was intended to end the way it did. I have to admit, Debi did look sharp, but I justify that by her veteran experience. She's been active since the late 80's/early 90's and has a different approach to conditioning than Alina does.

Alina's legs.


The video shows how Alina kept challenging Iris in the posedown to compare legs. Alina made it apparent that she knew her legs were better and wanted the judges and audience to bear witness to that. Iris avoided her after the first challenge and walked to the opposite end. Alina paid no attention to the other women. Debi didn't seem to be much of a threat to her. She just focused on Iris. Perhaps her goal was to dethrone Iris before her retirement. Regardless, the judges had long since made their decisions on who would be the victor.

Karma to timmon. Thanks for the uploads.

[fredzeppelin]

"Perhaps her goal was to dethrone Iris before her retirement."

You think?

"Regardless, the judges had long since made their decisions on who would be the victor."

And that, my friends, has been the problem with women's professional bodybuilding for the last ten years.

[Cas]

Yeah, how Ruth got into commenting on bodybuilding is a mystery, in this clip it looks like Robyn is being interviewed by someone's grandmother. 

[Sar-Net]

Yeah, how Ruth got into commenting on bodybuilding is a mystery, in this clip it looks like Robyn is being interviewed by someone's grandmother. 

Her name is Ruth Silverman she writes for Ironman magaizine.  Now why they choose her to be a reporter on a bodybuilding mag I have no idea what so ever.   She has a pump and circumstance blog on Ironmans web site, I have no idea about the mag these days as no place I goto regular sells it anymore.  As I recall the last time I did see the mag it was like $6.96 or something?  $6.95 is way too much for a mag, these fools just don't get that the price of the mag should be a token and the advertising be what pays for writers, paper, ink, utilities, etc.  Of course this is a problem with most mags, newspapers these days brain damaged twits running the show and not understanding how to run a publication.  I still get a bunch of free paper mags in the mail and lots of e-mail ones as there are still a few publishers that still get the idea that advertising should pay the bills not the readers.

[netcurse2000]

Womens Physique

Juliana Malacarne   

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Sabrina Taylor

[CookyMonzta]

What's the latest on the survival of women's BB at the Ms. Olympia, or the Ms. O. as a whole?

[FemFlexUSA]

What's the latest on the survival of women's BB at the Ms. Olympia, or the Ms. O. as a whole?

There will be no Ms. Olympia in 2015. The IFBB Rising Phoenix in San Antonio will be this year's women's  World Championship event.