Prince
Board Sponsor
The question as to whether or not there should be security at big bodybuilding shows is somewhat of a novel concept. Bodybuilding is very much a niche sport and does not command the audience sizes of major league sports like basketball, football, hockey, and baseball. For those events it’s very common to go through metal detectors and get patted down by security before being admitted to the games. But in bodybuilding you’re dealing with a fraction of the number of attendees and nobody would ever think to put metal detectors outside.
Mind you, I’m talking about big bodybuilding shows or an expos. Usually the people that go are either relatives of the competitors or lifelong fans of the sport. Very rarely has there ever been any instance of violence and if there has been it might be a couple of fists thrown or maybe a competitor breaking their trophy or as we saw in Greece last year a competitor slapping a judge. But really there isn’t a need to have the kind of security that you would see at a major league sporting event.
The reality of the matter is that we are living in a different time. The world is not the same as we knew it just a few years prior. We have even seen death threats come out in social media as a result of placings.
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