Any more details on that?
Ok. Read the whole book in two sittings and finished last night. Topics include:
+Andreas Muntzer's death
+Grant Thomas and the difference between amateurs and pros
+Dorian's rise to prominance and why he was better than everyone else (including the 97 O where he tore almost all of his tricep)
+He covers the England GP 02 and then the Dutch GP with Big Ron
+Covers Arnold, Pumping Iron, the Arnold 03
+Back to Munzter's death and what he took (and if he really took all of it)
+A bit about the drugs and the different amounts pros take and the genetic factors to why different people react to steriods differently
+A chapter on Wayne DeMilia and the build-up to the 03 O (Wayne does come off too well in this book. He gives Dorian a nosebleed seat for the O)
+The 3-way angle with Gunter v Jay v Ronnie
+The 03 O, lack of a diuretics test, DeMilia thinks he solved the problem of deaths in bodybuilding
+Muntzer again: he uses him as a metaphor for sports and society
+An afterword about DeMilia leaving AMI because Pecker didn't want him to promote the O after Ben Weider told him to fire Wayne
+An update about drugs in sport, BALCO busts and their ties with mainstream sport
It was a balanced, fair assessment of the sport. The thing I'll remember most is that he said if everybody let everyone take what they wanted in order to compete, bodybuilding was the epitomy of that hypothesis. That the "era of the freak" is here to stay and the sport is teleological.
Chad 'drugs guru' Nicholls get a mention as well as Getbig
