Exaclty why Gunter should've competed recently, he's the best by far when factoring this and physique in and best repping the "sport".
Because it's already clearly part of the criteria, something that Weider has never admitted. As one past Olympian winner told me, Joe likes guys who are articulate spokesmen as winners. Jay over Martinez, Zane over Robby, Samir over Fox, Haney, Yates winning without merit some years over various relatively inarticulate and/or obvious minorities, etc.
How many ugly guys have won the Olympia? Guys like Zane, Dickerson, Samir, Haney and Yates clearly benefitted from intangibles that made a crucial different. Exactly why Yates always won over better, more deserving members of the rainbow coalition, why Haney always won, why Columbu's abortions were acceptable, why Oliva was phased out. Looks are a factor when everything else is close or when someone's noticably fugly, like Nasser.
