here's another version from Wikipedia - I don't know how reliable it is but I notice that it's different from the first version that was posted
This was on the American version of Wikipedia and then it changed but you can still see it if you do a Google search and then looked at the cached pages. I have no clue of the accuracy of the some of the more provacative statements. Serge can you clarify this?
This is a link to what appears to be the identical text as the cached wiki pages:
http://www.answers.com/topic/serge-nubret---------------------------------------
Serge Nubret
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Serge Nubret
Serge Nubret on the cover of Muscle magazine
Born October 6, 1938
Guadaloupe
Serge Nubret (born October 6, 1938) is a former IFBB professional French bodybuilder.
Contents [hide]
1 Background
2 Bodybuilding titles
3 See also
4 External link
[edit] Background
Born to a working class family in Guadaloupe, Nubret moved to Paris in the 1950s. He discovered his love of iron in the northern Parisian district of Sarcelles where he worked part-time for the local greengrocer while funding his studies as an aspiring actor and sometime model. His father Franck, a nightclub doorman, instilled in his son a burning desire to succeed and be the best where he himself had failed. An unfortunate cycling accident had cut short his father's bodybuilding career years earlier.
Nubret's frustration at his inability to break onto the international bodybuilding scene led to increasingly erratic behaviour. Like so many ethnic youths living in the Sarcelles housing projects, this "behaviour" soon landed Nubret in a French prison. Serge says to this day that he is terribly ashamed of this dark period of his life.
Later he developed into one of the top professional bodybuilders of his day. He competed many times in the Mr. Olympia and placed as high as second. Serge Nubret was widely praised for having tremendous chest, and abdominal development. Today he is looked at as one of the iconic bodybuilders from the golden era of bodybuilding.
Nowadays, he makes his living delivering speeches to French school and college students on the potential dangers of delinquency. Indeed, as recently as October 2005, Nubret appeared on national television alongside Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in an attempt to quell the rising uprest that flared throughout French towns and cities.
Although Nubret never shone in the iron pumping circuit as brightly as some of the later Adonises of the sport such as Lou Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger, he remains to this day an icon and inspiration to many younger budding French bodybuilders. He will remain one of the early trailblazers in this oft-maligned sport, championing the cause for those in lower socio-economic backgrounds. He has also featured in many bodybuilding and fitness articles, as well as appearing on the cover of MUSCLE magazine.
Serge can also be found helping users at BodyBuilding.com's IFBB Pro message boards, where he holds IFBB status.
[edit] Bodybuilding titles
1970 IFBB Mr. Europe (Tall)
1976 NABBA Pro Mr. Universe
1977 WBBG Mr. Olympia
1977 WBBG Pro Mr. World
1983 WABBA Pro World Championships
[edit] See also
List of professional bodybuilders
Pumping Iron
[edit] External link
History of the Olympia - Serge Nubret
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Categories: French bodybuilders | Living people | 1938 births | Professional bodybuilders
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