Lingster - All 4 of your posts are devoted to a woman whom you've never spoke with nor do you know how she viewed the interview. Pretty obvious she wasn't too upset if she would post it on her myspace page and send out an bulletin on it. Much less have dinner with the "ass" who interviewed her. Perhaps you should make a trip to the Sacramento show to meet the one you so desperately want to defend as she will be competing there.
What's she supposed to do? Make a big fuss and damage her reputation, or roll with it and show that she takes criticism well? I suspect you were counting on her passivity in response - bullies generally do. Her willingness to turn the other cheek doesn't absolve you of the consequences of behaving like an ass.
Several people have contacted me since I started posting here saying, basically, "Great job with your posts but please don't tell anyone I said so," presumably requesting anonymity because they fear retribution. And the response is nice to hear, but it's empty and I don't put much stake in it other than as a gauge of fear. I believe the seeming randomness of judging criteria in the IFBB exists mostly as a cover for fixed results - rewarding of favored competitors and punishment of those who are in disfavor. For some reason competitors tolerate this ridiculous situation, when they ought to be abandoning the IFBB for federations with better reputations for fair dealing.
And by the way, if you had any verifiable "journalist" chops, you'd be hitting out at this sort of thing, not abetting it as a cynical buffoon who considers himself a party to the "joke". (The "joke" being that the competitors always get the short end of the stick, but they keep coming back for more abuse, year after year in a steady stream.) IFBB management mocks and exploits its competitors, and people like you have decided you'd rather join in with the mockery and exploitation than do anything about it. Congratulations, you've become an IFBB toady.
Seems to me enough harm was done to competitors at the
Figure Olympia by (typical) IFBB results fixing, without jackals like yourself and Ron feeling at liberty to go around harassing them the next day. In a way I'm glad you behaved so disgracefully, because it puts a microscope up to the IFBB's exploitation of competitors.
