As Ben Weider said on his recent Bodybuilding.com Radio interview, his “lifelong dream” has been to get BB competition as an added Olympic “sport”.
Of course, the only hope for this to come about is supposedly that only amateur BB may be considered by the IOC (as Ben stated). This is because the pro. BBers are so “juiced/doped to the gills” that there is absolutely no hope of them competing in the Olympics.
However, if amateur BB is ever accepted as an Olympic “sport”, these BBers would probably be drug-tested to the standards of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), which is the most rigorous doping testing on the planet…even more so than the IOC’s standards! For example, U.S. superheavy Olympic weightlifter Shane Hamman was randomly drug-tested some 18 times during the 2004 Olympic year by the IWF’s U.S. equivalent (USAW).
Compared to the IWF’s rigorous, random, drug-testing and punishment standards for positive testing, all relative competitive BB drug-testing is “a joke”, to say the least!
Sadly, many amateur BBers, in their impatience to develop muscle mass/vascularity, dope to the levels of the pros.!
Of course, doping testing will always be a "cat-and-mouse game", but getting amateur BB eventually recognized as an Olympic “sport” would be a big positive step in the direction of cleaning up the “drug/doping” stigma currently associated even with amateur BB in the general public’s eye!
