Neo are you paying attention to this thread? he most certainly said Dorian didn't look better in person than in pics or video , he went as far as to say he doesn't have some magical property that allows this , and I mean look at McGoughs quote
Peter McGough Flex Magazine May 2002
Let it be said that the camera can lie at physique contests. Some guys look great onstage but not so great on final film (Dorian Yates, for one) and vice versa (Shawn Ray is an example).
I mean I don't care if you guys agree with this or disagree it doesn't change the fact
It doesn't matter who he said it in reference to , its not accurate to gauge his conditioning based on compressed video & scans knowing what McGough and others have said , so either way he's wrong to try and claim eyewitnesses are wrong and he his right
and again I've seen Ronnie listed at 244 pounds by McGough 
either way its moot he's still down 10 pounds so your original assessment he was the same size in 99 V 01 is dead wrong , it doesn't matter if he was lighter by 10 or 13 pounds he's still NOT the same , and you can't try and downplay 10/13 pounds as not much of a difference because one need only look the obvious size difference between 98 250 pounds VS 99 257 pounds , so once again like usmoke you're dead wrong and proven so by me
dude i cant even argue with you, you take everything out of context, misinterpret the meaning of posts and wont beleive that people can be influenced by others opinions, bias, beleif preserverance,bystander effect etc....
people are not machines, emotions and feelings can convalute opinions and judement. i said dorian had a magical quality if he was the only one who possesed this quality, not what you said(agian you mis-interpret or miss the meaning of posts). it is more logical that this special quality, with no name, quantification,articulation and somehow is missed by the camera(if you realized optic technology, the camera captures things as they are, lighting,depth,angle they are accurate, surveillence cameras,confession tapes, photos in court are primary evidence) is ridiculous. logic would hold that all bodybuilders would appear more impressive in person then print. due to lack of standardization(reference to objects,the norm) they would appear more impressive. if dorian was the only one who had this quality it is just a ridiculous argument, unless you offer some sort of prediction, test etc to prove it.
im sure an elephant is bigger in person then on print due to the above factors. everything is more impressive in person, dont you realize this. life is defined by polarity black/white big/small. cameras and pics reduce this polarity and reference, in person the reality is evident. havent you ever went somewere and said "this looks bigger then the pic, or more impressive" i have, im sure everyone has. however, a picture would show the same qualities eg(a stadium) green grass, same amount of chairs, same angles, same number of walls. but in person reference, and standards in reference to yourself(polarity again) make it more impressive.
to argue that dorian would look better in person while ronnie would not, or that dorian becomes more seperated, cut is ridiculous. from the above analogy dorian would the same walls(cuts) the same grass(shape) the same number of chairs(seperations) and same angles(size) however as is obvious he would(along with others, as this is my argument) appear better in person but not different. the not different is your problem. he wouldnt be larger in relation to other competitors, have more cuts, or be more seperated. this just doesnt make sense.
however, granted your argument about improvments in technology may make pics better, but i dont think the one year or two allowed for a paradigm shift in optics to the point were ronnie had an advantage. hmm.. lets see 95,96,97,98,99 not a big gap there in picture time comparison, one year at the minimum, 3 at the most. agian another empty argument by you, to claim that ronnie in 98 or 99 had better picture resolution is ridiculous. agian you cling to moot arguments,did picture quality revolutionize betwee oct 97 and oct 98 i dont know, you dont know, but i think its safe to bet that it never, unless your a moron. are you a moron?
