Judging from those questions, It look's like you know more of Sergio than Sergio himself!!!
Yeah, I read as much as I could about The Myth growing up which was hard at times because he did very little interviews. Much of the information available about Sergio was duplicated from one source to another or it was a case of "I heard from a friend of a friend" kind of stuff. The man amazed me with his mass . . . and still does. In fact, until Paul Dillet hit the stage, I'd never seen anything remotely resembling The Myth in size, mass, enormity call it what you will.
Segio was simply the epitome of "size."
CS,
Your input into this thread is priceless.
A couple more questions if I may --
Where did the miss-spelling of his name come from? It's only a few short years ago that I realized it was "Oliva" and not "Olivia." Was it a publication that got it wrong and it stuck, or did he actually spell his name differently for some time?
Is it true that it was Bob Gajida [sp] that convinced Sergio to enter bodybuilding or was it something Sergio decided on after seeing the caliber of competition in magazines?
Look at the size and detail in this rare back shot . . . amazing!