Easy question to answer....
Your immune system is at its most vulnerable as you approach a contest...12 weeks + of dieting, cardio, low fat content, and beating yourself into the ground with workouts all lend to a surpressed Immune.
Add that into the host of regular reasons anyone gets sick...and it's not to tough to figure out.
That said...people tend to only focus in on the few shows an athlete happened to be sick, while the reality is, most have been sick/ ill for very few
Sounds logical. I guess I had the ol' "conspiracy theory' goin... I thought maybe it was one particular drug that was really tough to handle during extensive travel. My guess was insulin... or maybe over-loading to enter another country before you got the "hookup"
I have never been in that kind of condition..(obviously)
7% is the lowest bodyfat I've ever had-- and I wasn't entirely "natural"
The interview in the "videos" section with Mousawi (spellcheck) - he makes it sound so routine. Mark Dugdale got really sick goin to Dorian's gym in the UK. So many claim "food poisoning" ...
I was just curious. I guess there are many variables to the answer, but I suppose I was suspecting some sort of "recurring theme"