Here's an interesting thought for the day.
Ronnie Coleman may be calling it quits. A few points:
Recent pics show Ronnie TORE A TRICEP in December. Not many athletes can come back inside a year from an injury like this, much less a 40+ year old man on top of the sport.
Ronnie will be what, 43 years old for next year's Olympia? Dickerson barely won it at age 44 in a far less competitive era.
Ronnie has nothing more to prove in the sport- 8 straight Olympias makes him #1.
Ronnie has used higher levels of GH/IGF/Insulin than any previous Mr O champion. His head is clearly showing a growing skull plate on the front left side.
From recent pics, Ronnie has not touched a weight, has not eaten much, and has not used anything more than maintenance HRT for the last 4 months.
Ronnie lost his LOCK upon the Olympia the minute the judges awarded Gustavo the challenge round at the 05 Olympia. Gustavo is clearly waiting to be next.
Ronnie did an additional DVD, The Road to the Olympia, AFTER the Olympia. He's never done this. And he did it in Australia, alienating his American video contracts.
Ron is guest posing and doing signings like never before. Every week. This WOULD be a good time to keep the retirement secret and earn a lot of money.
Dorian waited until the Arnold Classic following his last Olympia win to announce his retirement. So did Haney. Will Coleman?
The magazines are covering Gustavo like he's the next champ. Marketing students would say these resources are going in Gustavo's direction for a reason...
Perhaps Ronnie Coleman did the math after tearing a tricep and winning #8 and realized it's time to hang it up and retire a champion. I know it's popular opinion to say that Ronnie will be king forever, but we all may want to step back and look at the facts and consider we may have seen the man onstage for the last time.
