2009 NPC Teenage Overall winner is ineligible
Sunday, July 19, 2009
To: All Bodybuilding Press
From: Jim Manion, NPC National Office
Subject: Benjamin Loehrer
Due to age ineligibility Benjamin Loehrer has been declared ineligible as the 2009 NPC Teenage National Light-Heavyweight & Overall winner. Overall runner-up Uriah McGee will be awarded the Overall title & also the trip to Los Angeles for the Flex Magazine featured article & photo shoot. Also, all competitors in the Light-Heavyweight class will now move up a placing.
Jim Manion
NPC President
That is messed up. that dude knew what he was doing and robbed the second place guy of being in the overall comparison.
The dude knew when his f_cking birthday was and it says very clearly that you have to be 19 the day of the contest.
Man and another thing this dude was geared to win what with Farah and Palumbo behind him. How can you be “essentially a teen” that is like being kind of pregnant. You have a birthday then you are not 19 any more.
So what these guys wanted mattered more to Udit than what these teenagers went through. Dieting for upwards of 12 weeks, spending outrageous amounts of money on supps, plane tickets, hotels, entry fees, and tanning products just to get all of their effort spit on by some political and greedy, selfish B.S.
Those involved, who are bodybulders themselves and know the sacrifices made for a contest, should at the very least appologize and fly all of the other ELIGIBLE class winners to California for the FLEX shoot because there was never a real overall comparison.
It is injust. These guys worked hard and honestly. This person that got disqualified planned and intentionally went in to decieve and the true light heavy winner could never have that time and experience back because it was stolen from him. This prestigious contest where you build up and earn the right to be recognized for the work put into it should be upheld by disciplinary actions against those who decieved. The integrity of this show should be restored and severe actions should be taken.
This sport needs to be taken seriously and people’s lives should be taken seriously. People should not be playing these games. It is very dissappointing an shameful.