Sun. Oct 6th, 2024

Already starting to leak into the mainstream news sites, the events of Sunday May 17 will not help the already maligned sport of bodybuilding.
A European bodybuilding show was canceled after all 20 bodybuilders fled the show after the arrival of doping testers. The organizers had to cancel the show, with all 300 odd people leaving without seeing a single bodybuilder take the stage.
From Mesomorphosis.com

The 2009 NABBA Belgium Nationals Bodybuilding Championships were cancelled yesterday after three anti-doping official arrived unannounced to conduct steroid testing. The NABBA Belgium sanctioned bodybuilding championship was to be held at Arsenaal Theater in Vlissingen, Netherlands on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The 20 bodybuilding competitors were reported to have “fled” the auditorium when the steroid testers arrived (”Bodybuilders op de vlucht voor dopingartsen,” May 18).
“I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” said anti-doping official Hans Cooman. “In the bodybuilding world doping control is necessary because we know that there is a lot of doping going on. The results prove this again and again.” Cooman said he had no choice but to conclude that all the competitors were using steroids based on their abrupt departure from the venue…..click here to continue reading article

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