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Let’s talk about the idea of the special invite. Because you guys know from my many articles over the years that I’m not a fan of the practice. I think the special invite waters down the playing field of a competition that is known as the Super Bowl of Bodybuilding. One of the few things that were real from Pumping Iron is that the Olympia was supposed to be the show where guys that had won the Universe, the World Championships, maybe the European Championships, would get together and battle it out to be the best of the best. That’s why it’s called the Super Bowl of Bodybuilding. It wasn’t supposed to be an event where guys could qualify through points as was the case up until recently.
Just a few years ago you could look at the Olympia lineup and see no less than 30 or 40 guys. Forget about first and second call-outs, there was a third and a fourth. I mean you had guys on there that hadn’t won a single show. Maybe hadn’t won a single show in their entire professional careers! But they were there because in one year maybe they took third place two times, 5th Place five times, and maybe if they were lucky took second place one time. Every place they got they would get points even if they never won. Some of the guys up there didn’t even get fourth place or third place or much less second place. They took 5th place at enough shows as to where they could get on the stage with the best of the best.
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by Christian Duque Let's talk about the idea of the special invite. Because you guys know from my many articles over the years that I'm not a fan of the practice. I think the special invite waters down the playing field of a competition that is known as the Super Bowl of Bodybuilding. One of
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