i was bummed when the dude passed. he was a perfect example of how to properly site-inject delts. probably should've won in '01 (felt bad for vince taylor as everybody was getting older and catching up and he no longer had a stranglehold on the Masters Olympia. the other dude who placed 3rd Geir Borgan Paulsen, probably couldve been 2nd and put vince in 3rd. thought it was funny when they had to do away with the masters olympia because many of the regular Olympia contestants would also qualify for the masters now because of growth hormone. lol
I'm not sure why your posts get trashed all the time, as this one seems legit. I will have to follow the dispute you are having with other Getbiggers. Incidentally, I was in rehab with some Getbiggers last spring and...jk.

When they did have the last Master's Olympia when Dennis James had his "comeback" after two years since the 2010 Mr. Olympia and confessing to his actual age of 45 in 2010, check out how the top 10 looked:
[1] Dexter Jackson
[2] Toney Freeman
[3] Dennis James
[4] Edward Nunn
[5] Ronny Rockel
[6] Michalis Kefalianos
[7] Darrem Charles
[8] Bill Wilmore
[9] Troy Alves
[10] Andrew Jemmott
Aside from Andrew Jemmott, who I am not familiar with, this looks like the lineup of any given pro show - almost to this day.

That's what I found funny about that Master's - in addition to the comeback of Dennis James, where he was already on literally half the gear he takes for contests just walking around expos. Dennis talked to Lonnie Teper about his size, and called his large post-retirement muscles "leftovers". Yeah, leftovers - also known as taking 10 times the recommended dose of TRT.

So yeah, you had the comeback of Dennis James, and you also had a lineup of normal Mr. Olympia competitors, as opposed to any old guys - again, just a normal lineup, haha.
I also agree with you on Geir Borgan Paulsen - I believe he was 45 at the time, and I read more than one critic/comment stating that he could have won. However, if you watch the GMV.com.au DVD, you will see that Vince Taylor was NOT happy when Don Youngblood won. So whether or not he should have, Taylor definitely felt that he was the winner.
Here is my review of the contest/DVD [just put bodybuilding and pro together - as Ron blocked my website due to my spamming it for a week in 2010:
http://www.bodybuilding pro.com/mastersolympiadvdreview2002.html
Also, interesting fact: Don Youngblood went from 240-lb at 5'9 in 2001 at age 47 to 247-lb in 2002. So he put on a solid 7-lb of muscle while maintaining, if not improving upon, his conditioning. That is pretty impressive at that age, regardless of what he was on - but with his business income, he could probably afford all of the top of the line gear.
Sadly, Don was featured in the 2002 Dead Pool.

Full text here from the web archive, since the original copy was taken down by T-Nation for some reason:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110101153225/http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sex_news_sports_funny_grok/the_dead_pool_2002Doug OldbloodOkay, I can kinda' understand why these young guys would be such kamikazes with their drug use. After all, they're trying to make a living (however slim the chances of that) at this flex-for-pay thing. But why on earth would a guy pushing fifty, with a successful trucking business, a wife and kids, do the same? Doug shocked everybody in 2001 by showing up at the Master's Olympia looking positively gnarly — thick and shredded at 5' 10", 240.
An argument could even be made that he should have beaten Vince Taylor. But holy smokes, if the body doesn't cry out rampant steroid abuse, the face does. Doug has that common Neanderthal GH brow and cheekbones, plus the beet-red face and disappearing hairline. If he did indeed overdo the drugs, you have to wonder why he's subjecting his aging body to the chemical cocktail it would most likely take to look like this. After all, the prize money for winning the Master's O is probably what he pulls in every week from his business.Yet another interesting fact: Don Youngblood was the favourite bodybuilder of Getbig's own BayGBM! Bay Area Gay Black Man? I think.