GMV's Mr O preview

In their weekly newsletter this was the highlight

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Jay a few hours before he went on stage

I had to lighten these a little but not bad at all...

Excuses, excuses

You have none.

The evidence

A nice side tricep from Branch Warren

The pose that helped Jay do the business

And not even an actual pose but a transition (between one pose and the next):

Mr Olympia 2009

Ladies and gentlemen your new Mr Olympia and now 3-time winner... Jay Cutler!!

Olympia Strongest Man

Highlight thus far must be the log. With Ironmind reporting thus: Five athletes succeeded at 400 pounds while Van Hatfield and Scott Weech were the only two athletes to get 440 pounds!

So far so good...

Strongman
A text message via his brother Harry 'H' Shahlaei has Laurence S in second place on his first event (medley) and via SDF and Ironmind it looks like Loz got a 1st on the second event - Truck Pull.

Oh yes... as Loz predicts so it becomes. This years was 'to make the final 8'.

Bodybuilding
And in the el numero event of the year, the Mr Olympia, its proving equally as exciting with no one a clear winner. I've never seen so many 'well I think it...' and they be so different. That said everyone's agreeing on two things 1) Jay Cutler has brought his best game to date as has 2) Branch Warren.

Meet the Olympians and press conference

Photo this page of an inshape Ronny Rockel. Now that's a back.

How daft am I. This morning I was all 'so why no pre-judging yet?'. That's cos it's today d'uh!! Anyway... now I've woken up. I watched the MD video of the conference (Branch Warren's legs... ouch...but in a good way) and there's some photos online too. Check out the new boy Martin... grainey, nasty, nasty :D

MD video of conference

Flexonline photo gallery (13 pages of about 20 shots a page or so)

Dennis James

I wanted to post this yesterday but had problems loading it. Anyway... thanks to IB on MT (all sounds like coded slang eh? LOL) here's a few days out one of Dennis J (I hope he looks the same on stage).

Marcus Ruhl

Interesting clip, if not for the mighty German's physique lacking the qualities of a Mr O top 6 but more for the other possible contenders in the gym at the same time (near the end). Video

NB: note the large screen format and crystal clear resolution. That's a good way to go.

Fingers crossed for the Brits

To all the British lads but esp locals Laurence Shahlaei at the WSM and Lee Powell in the 202 class Mr Olympia - best of luck lads.

2 more days to go.... and then IT'S ON!

Now that's a tricep

MD keeps knocking out the last minute videos to keep the heat on. Today's is Victor Martinez's arm workout one week out. Check out the depth of tricep in this screen grab. Video here

Branch Warren training legs a few days out

MD has a video of Branch doing his last Metroflex leg session pre the Mr O. Check out this video grab image. Video here

Jay's showing his hand

As of yesterday morning Jay Cutler has put some photos up on his facebook page (21ooo+ friends). Here's one (dated as being uploaded on the 17th):

There's another more recent but it's a little squashed looking.

Olympian Poker

Someone described, just today, the antics of the Mr Olympia pros as 'they're playing poker'. Usually by this time we'd have seen the 'two weeks out', 'one week out' photos of many of the top 10. Thus far all the photos and videos have been covered up. Just today I saw a 'Jay Cutler 5 days out' thread on RX and there he is with about 4-inches of forearm on display. LOL.

Fingers crossed all the lads look mind blowing come the weekend.

Dennis Wolf pre-olympia shoulder workout

Video here

Next weekend...

We launch new prices... The Mr O is on!! and WSM begins. Phew!!

Olympia Strongman Championships

So Muscle & Fitness arrived today via WH Smiths and somewhat confusingly states that Derek Poundstone and 2 other buddies who are listed as competing in WSM are competing in this one. Err no. They're deffo in the WSM (confirmed by both sites). That said the best of the rest in the USA will be in Vegas September with the would be Mr Olympia contenders as part of the Mr O weekend.