1980 Olympia - "A RAW AND UNCENSORED VIEW"

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[NaturalWonder83]

Has Arnold ever given a reason as to why the footage is not available?

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Has Arnold ever given a reason as to why the footage is not available?

Arnold is exercising his right to remain silent.

Arnold had Netflix purposely avoid the 1980 Olympia completely in the documentary about his life/career.

[NaturalWonder83]

Arnold is exercising his right to remain silent.

Arnold had Netflix purposely avoid the 1980 Olympia completely in the documentary about his life/career.

I never heard this. But you're very right:

The damage didn't stop in Sydney, however. The very next year, the 1981 Mr. Olympia, which was promoted by Arnold and his partner Jim Lorimer, saw Arnold’s close friend Franco Columbu win under equally dubious circumstances, despite a visibly imbalanced physique due to a recent leg injury.

Top-tier competitors, including Zane, Coe, and Mentzer boycotted the event. CBS, despite having already purchased the broadcast rights, chose not to even send a film crew. A sport once poised for mainstream legitimacy suddenly looked like a closed-shop sideshow.

For its part, the bodybuilding industry couldn’t sweep the fiasco under the rug fast enough. Many decades later, in the 2023 Netflix documentary Arnold, which chronicled Schwarzenegger’s life from Austria to the California governor’s mansion, the 1980 Olympia is conspicuously absent.

While his earlier victories are celebrated, and his post-retirement career is explored in depth, his seventh and final Olympia title is ignored. This omission is telling.

Sporting comebacks are typically glorified. Think of Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, even Tiger Woods. But Arnold’s 1980 “triumph” remains shrouded in silence. Perhaps because acknowledging it means confronting an uncomfortable truth: that perhaps Arnold’s victory that day in Australia had been crafted in the shadows by promoters, friends, and a system desperate to protect its icon.
The 1980 Mr. Olympia remains bodybuilding’s darkest hour. It ended one of the most promising careers in the sport’s history. It undermined the legitimacy of the IFBB. It drove fans and mainstream television away. And it revealed a rot at the core of the sport’s governing institutions.

Fellow 1980 Mr. Olympia competitor Roger Walker later likened Arnold’s victory to seeing a man wearing a stolen watch. “What do I say?” he asked. “Do I say, ‘Nice Watch’ or do I say, ‘Why are you wearing a stolen watch?’”

The metaphor is an interesting one, as the Sandow trophy won by Schwarzenegger that night may have shined, but more than a few believe to this day that its luster was dimmed by the suspicion of corruption.

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In regards to the final 2 paragraphs:  Arnold stole a watch in 1980 !!!!

[Rambone]

In regards to the final 2 paragraphs:  Arnold stole a watch in 1980 !!!!

He couldn’t control himself. He was high on cocaine!

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He couldn’t control himself. He was high on cocaine!

You’re damn right

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At 3:20 Boyer Coe talks about how nervous Arnold was. That was probably the cocaine.

[NaturalWonder83]

You’re damn right

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