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I hate to beat a dead horse, but that’s kind of the feeling I get when I pen yet another article about Bob Cicherillo and the whole athlete rep saga. The reality is that Bob is just days away from turning 60 and it almost feels like elder abuse to rag on him. Did he ever win the NY Pro, the Arnold Classic, or the Mr. Olympia? Of course not. He came close to winning a pro show, but 2nd was the best he could ever get. Then he decided to compete in a masters show that was pretty much made for him and a documentary he was filming around it. He was able to somehow get his first and only pro win that way, even though mostly everyone thought European sensation and international ladies heartthrob Pavol Jablonicky had him beat. Just as soon as he was declared the winner, Bob unofficially retired.
Since then, Bob has been a media guy. But his fallback has always been this fictitious athlete’s rep position. Many of the top pros prefer to avoid drama than get into a pissing match with the Rochester, NY native. This is because everyone knows that Cicherillo has no sway with Pittsburgh, but if he gets offended he’ll start talking into his Obama phone on YouTube. No one listens to him and no one cares what he has to say. If Bob’s position actually had any real power, there would have been others trying to get the post. I mean how aware is a near 60 year old man who hasn’t competed in 20 years of what today’s athletes are going through?
