Any chance you would like to enlighten us with what the actual motive (politics) would be with having a Non American BBing Olympia champion would be by way of Marketing/promotion/sales/sponcership etc etc?
I know you supposedly haven't been around the sport for a while (yeah sure..lol
), so I will enligten you as to how politically motivated wins in bodybuilding work.
they have never been about marketing, selling tickets etc except in the obvious case of gunter over ronnie, where guntermania was running wild and it was painfully obvious based on how gunter and ronnie actually compared - ronnie beat him easily.
its all about if Uncle Joe likes you, you will do well. look at Arnold 1980, Uncle Joes good friend, look what happened. Franco 1981, same thing. Jay over chris at the AC where Jay had one side of his body atrophied. If you are close to Joe, you win. its that simple. its contest. if he wants you to win, you do, even if you show up looking awful, like dorian 97 over nasser etc.
the IFBB has never been smart enough to really push their guys like they should have in terms of marketing, something that Vince McMahon and the WBF tried to actually do.