The results for this past weekend’s NABBA Universe (the “real” Mr Universe) have been entered into the database. Steve Sinton of the UK won the amateur men’s, Hassan Al Saka of Syria, last year’s amateur winner, won the Pro Universe, Sandra Watershoot of Belgium won the women’s physique, and Lorena Bucci of Italy won the Figure. James (Flex) Lewis of Wales won the Junior, Brian Peters also of Wales won the Masters. Sixty-one year old John Citrone, who entered his first NABBA Universe in 1964, and won his class four times in the 1960s, this year won the Masters over 50. Ben Rodriguez had the best American showing, placing fourth in the Masters.
Complete results: amateur, pro, and women.
Update: Spelling correction - the overall winner was Steve Sinton, who had also won the NABBA World Championships back in June
From today’s Los Angeles Times:
Palumbo, 36, faces a maximum five years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 17.
See previous blog entry for more details.
This summer, the US House of Representatives passed HR 3866, the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004, which would ban all steroid precursors and pro-hormones, and increased penalties for anabolic steroid offenses near sports facilities. It was then sent to the Senate.
Now, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved and sent to the full Senate a similar bill, S 2195. While this bill is not as extreme as the house bill, HR 3866’s language could be added later.
This bill could come up for a vote in a matter of days, or it could sit there until the end of the session, and then they’d have to start all over.
If you don’t want to see the War On Drugs to be extended to pro-hormones, now is the time to write your senator.
Harold Zinkin, one of the original members of southern California’s Muscle Beach, inventor of the Universal Machine , died yesterday after falling and hitting his head the day before. He was 82.
For everyone in Australia, be sure to read the September issue of Ironman Magazine on newstands now, specifically pages 106-109. There’s a nice article about me and the Muscle Memory website. Thanks to Daniel Nash for thinking this story was worth telling, and for sending me a few copies of the magazine.
There are a few lines in the article that I would have stated slightly differently. For example, “Almost all of the 65,000 entries on MuscleMemory have come from magazines.” While in the 1950’s and into the 1970’s, even local contests got mentioned in the back of magazines like Strength and Health, we’re lucky if national level contests receive any coverage today. While most of the vintage results in my database came from magazines, almost all of recent contest results have come from other websites. Also, about 10,000 entries came from Harry de Jonge, who had created his own personal database in the mid 1990’s. His contributions almost doubled the size of my database at the time.
Also, I believe in the quote I gave regarding drugs in the 1990s destroying the aesthetics of bodybuilding, I said “growth hormone, insulin and diuretics”. But that’s a minor point.
And everyone whom I’ve shown the article to has commented on the same thing. In the article they use my last name 15 times, but only mentions my first name once, such as “Fogarty said” and “Fogarty believes”. In the US it would be more common to use one’s first name. The last time anyone called me by just my last name was high school gym class.
FOLLOW-UP: It was pointed out that I’m mentioned in the Editorial as well. Very cool.
Kai Greene wins the overall for this year’s NPC Team Universe, held last night in New York City. Kai also won it in 1999. Vickie Nixon wins the women. Complete results for men and women.
Its been two weeks since the NPC Teen, Collegiate, and Masters Nationals, and I’ve still been unable to obtain complete results. The time to start advertising next year’s contest is the day after this year’s event, and the way to do that is to publicize this year’s results.
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In an Auckland New Zealand district court, Muscle Marketing USA has been fined $70,000 NZD (about $45,000 USD) for false claims about their Creatine Serum. Muscle Marketing claims that each 5 ml serving contains “the equivalent of” 2500 mg of creatine monohydrate. Analysis showed the product only contained 11.5 mg per dose.
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The NPC Teen, Collegiate, and Masters Nationals were held today in Pittsburgh. It may take a while for all the results to get posted on-line as they usually don’t show up on the NPC website for a week or two after the event, and its not one the bodybuilding magazines usually cover. However, the Masters 40-50 classes have been posted to the Mayhem forum, and I’ve typed them into the database here. Rusty Jeffers won the Super-heavyweight class, the overall, and received a Pro card to compete in the Masters Olympia. Too bad the Masters Olympia was canceled this year. There were rumors that it would be held along with the regular Olympia, but that does not now seem to be the case. Last week Rusty also came in 2nd in the supers at the NPC USA Championships.
All you Colt Magazine and video fans will know Rusty as Carl Hardwick. That is a topic for its own blog entry, which I hope to get to soon.
The NPC USA Championships were held tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mark Dugdale won the light-heavies. the overall and receives a pro card. Will Harris won the heavyweight class and the other pro card. Chris Cook won the super-heavyweight class. Steve Burke won the bantamweight, Ralph Gaxiola the lightweight, and Garret Allin the middleweight.
For the women, Tera Guzman won the lightweight, Christine Moore the middleweight, Carrie Baldwin the light-heavy and Sherry Smith the heavyweight class.
Complete Results available for men and women.
Joe Gold, founder of Gold’s Gym, died Sunday July 11, 2004 at 8:15 pm at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Marina Del Rey. He was 82.
He was born on March 10, 1922 in Boyle Heights, just east of downtown Los Angeles. After serving in the Navy in World War II, he joined the Merchant Marines. In the 1950s, Joe had been a competitive bodybuilder, movie stuntman, and a co-star of the famous “Mae West Show” in Las Vegas and elsewhere. In the mid 1960’s he opened a small training space in Venice that would later become Gold’s Gym. He sold his interest in Gold’s Gym in 1970, and returned to the Merchant Marines. In 1977 he opened World Gym in Venice, later moving it to Marina Del Rey. At the time of his death he remained chairman and CFO of World Gym International. He never married and has no descendants.