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Today, the thirteen competitors (hopefully there won’t be any last-minute dropouts) for the 2013 Ms Olympia will take the stage in Las Vegas. Some one of them will do so truly believing that they can beat Iris Kyle, but only one of them will line up knowing that she can beat Iris Kyle. That woman is, of course, Yaxeni Oriquen.
Yaxeni has beaten Iris in competition twice. Once at the Ms International in 2002, and once on the Olympia stage, in 2005. Not much to hang your hat on, but it’s good to know that though it may seem that Iris is, to all intents and purposes, ‘unbeatable’, this is not necessarily the case. It just takes twenty-five years of dedication to the sport, nearly twenty years of professional experience, perhaps a bit of luck, and one remarkable woman from Venezuela!
She is the youngest of nine children, and a former actress and model in her native Venezuela. For twenty-four of her twenty-five years as a bodybuilder, Yaxeni has been a mother. As well as her one Ms Olympia win, she has five Ms International titles. And in the last ten years, she has only finished outside the top 3 at the Olympia on two occasions.
Can Iris be beaten tonight? History suggests not, but at the same time, history also suggests that if anyone can, Yaxeni can. And if this is to be the last Ms O, wouldn’t it be fitting if the woman who has given more years of her life to the sport than any other were to be rewarded with the final prize?
YAXENI ORIQUEN (Ven)
Born: Cabimas, Venezuela Age: 47 Height: 5’7″ (1.70) Best Ms O: Winner 2005 In 2013: 2nd Ms International
From FMS, February 12th this year: Pros beware. Juanita is coming! Without question, a star of the future. In all probability, the very near future.
I do impress myself sometimes.
And I was patting myself on the back even more in July when Juanita Blaino, in front of her home crowd in Chicago, came second to Monique Jones by a mere point in only her first professional outing, and also carried off the Best Poser prize.
Now, if only Juanita had just stayed in Chicago and prepared for the Olympia, people would be calling me some kind of (crazed, but hey, a fine line and all that) female muscle seer. But she didn’t. She went to Tampa a month later, and there, this rising star, whose two most recent results had been her 2012 Nationals win (heavyweight and overall), followed by coming within a point of winning her first pro show… didn’t place.
Clunk.
Anyway, I, for one, am optimistic Juanita has enough experience to arrive in Las Vegas with her Chicago self, rather than the Tampa version. She first competed way back in 1988, but took time away from contests after 1994 while her daughter was growing up before returning in 2010. And as they say, form is temporary and class is permanent, and Juanita has a lot of class, so despite her disappointment in Tampa, I expect her to put up a strong showing on her Olympia debut.
And talking of class, Tina Chandler will be appearing at her 4th Olympia since she won her pro card at the Nationals in 2007. That year, Beverly DiRenzo, Nekole Hamrick, Michelle Neil and Kris Murrell were the top four heavyweights. Kristy Hawkins, Brit Miller, Karen Choat and Elena Seiple the top four light -heavyweights, and Hawkins took the overall title. You wouldn’t have bet much at the time that six years later it would be Tina, the middleweight class winner, who would be the only one of those women appearing at the Olympia. In fact, of those eight mentioned, only Kristy Hawkins, 7th in 2009, has appeared at the Olympia at all.
Perhaps the reason is Tina’s obvious love of her sport. The thing I MOSTLY enjoy about bodybuilding is the innermost challenge I must face each and every time I am to compete and improve, she says. I love having to face my fears and overcome them to get to the next level. This is the ART of bodybuilding and the ART of knowing yourself better than most people admit they want to know!
She is also a passionate advocate for female bodybuilding and an outspoken critic of the IFBB’s recent decisions. I really think it’s absurd to get rid of bodybuilding. It really makes no sense to me. If they were to do this, let’s say hypothetically, don’t you think they will run into the same problems in about 3-5 years? The same problem of not having a class for those girls to go to who have been competing at a certain level and have found themselves with a little more muscle than when they began.
Furthermore, Tina is an eloquent campaigner for better prize money for her and her fellow competitors. I am excited to proudly represent the women of our sport and to help bring us higher on the totem pole! I am motivated to TRY and accomplish equal prize winnings for women as it is for men… If Serena and Venus Williams can do it, so can WE.
Swell has to admit, he has a real soft spot for Tina going back a few years now. I can’t see her walking off with the title or even making the top six, but on Friday I’ll be rooting for this very special lady nonetheless.
JUANITA BLAINO (USA)
Born: Chicago, Illinois Age: 44 Height: 5’7″ (1.70) Best Ms O: on debut In 2013: 2nd Chicago Pro, did not place Tampa Pro
TINA CHANDLER (USA)
Born: Shreveport, Louisiana Age: 40 Height: 5’4″ (1.63) Best Ms O: 8th 2010 In 2013: 3rd Chicago Pro, 4th Tampa Pro
Flying the flag for Europe on Friday will (once again) be Brigita Brezovac of Slovenia, who is appearing in her fourth consecutive Ms Olympia; and the female muscle fan fantasy made flesh that is Alina Popa, competing in her third.
Brigita, it surprised me to learn, actually has a better pro record than Alina. She won the 2010 Battle of Champions in Hartford, and followed that success with victory at the Toronto Pro in 2011, and the same year finished 3rd at the Olympia. In comparison, Alina has no pro wins, and a fourth place last year as her best Olympia result. She has, however, done better at the Ms International, coming third in 2011 and 2012.
But while Brigita may have the results, Alina seems to have that special something that makes us fans go crazy. For three years running she has been voted ‘Muscle Goddess of the Year’ on the most famous female muscle fan forum (the first rule of which is you do not talk about it). When FMS asked readers who would line-up in their Fantasy Contest, Alina gained more votes than any other woman. If Friday’s contest was decided by online fan votes, Alina would only have to turn up to win.
Brigita was, she says, a strong but skinny 14-year-old trying to gain more explosive power for her chosen sport of karate when she first entered a gym. There I saw a photo of Anja Langer, who really impressed me, so I started exercising with weights. Although she went on to become national champion in karate, injuries and study commitments meant giving up the sport, but she didn’t give up the training she had been doing in the gym.
As she did last year, Brigita has only competed once in 2013, finishing 4th at the Ms International. She has spent much of the year indulging one of her great loves – travel. This year she has posted photos on her excellent blog from trips to Dubai, San Francisco and New York, as well as time spent back in her native Slovenia, and from Venice Beach, which she calls her second home. Her other great love is fashion, and between trips this year has brought out a range of T-shirts bearing the legend ‘Barbie Wants to Be Me’ (featured on FMS in May).
Brigita says, Bodybuilding teaches you the greatest discipline and dedication. You realize what a powerful tool your brain is – your willpower will move tons of weight in each workout, you will diet and starve for a higher purpose, put your body through physical and mental stress… Yes, you are really something special if you get through all this.
Few female muscle fans would disagree that Brigita really is something special. It’s no wonder that Barbie wants to be her.
Alina has been almost hermitic in 2013. It’s hard to see how she could improve on the physique she presented to the Olympia judges in 2011 and 2012, but she’s been training at the Armburst ProGym in Colorado (run by the former Mr Heather Policky, who is the kind of guy that makes me, and maybe you too, dear reader, wonder what we did wrong in a previous life), where the two-time Mr Olympia, Phil Heath, also trains. If she’s going to find improvement anywhere, it’s probably the place.
I LOVE BODYBUILDING, says Alina. It taught me how to fight, how to stay strong against the odds and society’s tendency for conformism. It has eventually made me a better human being. I do believe that overcoming obstacles in trying to reach my dreams made me more self-confident and stronger. I know I can achieve whatever I want as long as my goal is true to my nature and comes from that warm place inside me that’s filled with love and passion.
There is certainly plenty of love and passion for Alina among female muscle fans. Collectively, there’s nobody we’d like more to win. Will Alina emerge from the mountains of Colorado on Friday, bigger and better than ever, to give Europe its first Ms Olympia since Juliette Bergmann twelve years ago? If she does, she’ll be the most popular winner since then. Maybe the most popular ever.
BRIGITA BREZOVAC (Slo)
Born: Ptuj, Slovenia Age: 33 Height: 5’4″ (1.63) Best Ms O: 4th 2010 In 2013: 4th Ms International
ALINA POPA (Swi)
Born: Brăila, Romania Age: 34 Height: 5’7″ (1.70) Best Ms O: 4th 2012 In 2013: has not competed
Anne Freitas was huge, muscular, rock hard and ultra-conditioned,Real Female Bodybuilding reported after the Toronto Pro. When she was only awarded second place in favour of the much less muscular Jennifer Scarpetta she shot a look across the Toronto stage that was one part disgust, one part disbelief, and about 10 parts pure female bodybuilder fury.
Many felt the judges’ choice of Scarpetta was a political one, the report continues. Jennifer’s superbly muscled and beautifully aesthetic body over the pure freaky mass of runner-up Freitas and third place Rita Bello. However, the report also noted that if the Toronto Pro was all about muscle then there was a good argument for the monumentally muscular Rita being outright winner!
I get the impression that these two women cause IFBB judges to wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. Perhaps the judges’ nightmares are due to the prospect of some genuine ‘female bodybuilder fury’ being unleashed against them, or that one or more of Anne or Rita’s fans will hunt them down. Or maybe they just wake up in a cold sweat because they are at a loss as to how to mark these two freaky South American beasts in the context of the current climate in the IFBB towards female bodybuilding.
When Rita took 4th at the Tampa Pro in 2011 (the freakiest, hardest woman in the show according to Dave Palumbo, who added, I don’t think I’ve ever seen conditioning on a woman like this before) the lovers of hardcore muscle women immediately fell for her. At the same contest in 2012, in much the same condition, she finished 12th.
Meanwhile, Anne had won the contest in Hartford last year and marched triumphantly to her first Ms O having gained a legion of fans for her ultra-conditioned self.
This year, both of them have been runners-up, Anne amid the controversy in Toronto, Rita in Chicago. As the Argentinian P.E. teacher (imagine!) had also finished 3rd in Toronto, she finished top of the qualification points table, and achieved her dream and goal to participate on the Ms Olympia stage.
The South American beasts and their freaky mass will both be on that stage on Friday. Just a few more sleepless nights for the judges until then.
MARIA RITA BELLO (Arg)
Born: N/A Age: N/A Height: 5’2½” (1.59) Best Ms O: on debut In 2013: 3rd Toronto Pro, 2nd Chicago Pro
ANNE FREITAS (Bra)
Born: Criciúma, Brazil Age: 38 Height: 5’2″ (1.57) Best Ms O: 8th 2012 In 2013: 2nd Toronto Pro
Cathy LeFrançois and Debi Laszweski have, between them, over forty years of contest experience. Cathy first competed at in a local amateur show in Québec in 1990 as a 19-year-old. I really didn’t have any idea about what I needed to do, she says. I learned to pose by looking at pictures in magazines. Someone told me that I needed to do some sort of dance routine for the night show, so that is what I did. She walked away with awards for best poser and best routine, and the conviction that she had found her calling. Debi, inspired at 21 to take up weight training by Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor physique, first competed three years later, in 1994.
By 1995, Cathy was a pro, and by 2000 had become one half of bodybuilding’s premier couple after marrying Lee Priest. She had competed at two Olympias by the time she made a sojourn into figure, with little success, in 2005, the same year her marriage ended (I’m not suggesting these things are connected!). Since 2006 not a year has gone by without her stepping onto the stage as a competitor, her biggest wins being her three consecutive New York Pro titles between 2008 and 2010, and victory at the Tampa Pro in 2011.
The Tampa win put paid to thoughts that Cathy’s best years were behind her, and she has finished in the top 6 at the last two Ms Internationals. The older I get the better I get! she says. More muscle gain, maturity and your fan club grows with it. I would like to be in the top 5 again! I would love to be top 3 and be the one holding my friend Iris Kyle’s hand.
Debi has already been there, holding Iris’ hand last year as she finished second, breaking the ‘Iris first Yaxeni second’ result for the first time since Heather Policky was runner-up in 2009. In fact, since that year, Debi’s Olympia record is as good as, if not better than, Yaxeni Oriquen’s, with a second, two thirds, and a fourth place.
No one can begrudge her this belated success. At the 2000 and 2001 Nationals she was so dismayed by the judges’ decisions that she took four years out of competition, and after her return in 2005, when she came second, missing out on her pro card again, she commented that I always seem to do the wrong show at the wrong time. It was more than ten years after her first competition that she was finally able to turn professional. Subsequently, she has been a regular in the top two or three at the Olympia and the Ms International, and describes her career as currently being at a pinnacle.
If Debi were to walk off the stage as the new Ms Olympia on Friday, which is her avowed aim, it would be a shock of seismic proportions. As her fellow female muscle veteran has said, To beat Iris Kyle she would have to be retired! But, you never really know what’s going to happen at female bodybuilding shows, and if that unlikely event does occur, nobody could say that Debi hadn’t earned it.
CATHY LEFRANÇOIS (Can)
Born: Amqui, Québec Age: 42 Height: 5’3″ (1.60) Best Ms O: 4th (lightweight) 2000, 2003 In 2013: 5th Ms International
DEBI LASZEWSKI (USA)
Born: Wausau, Wisconsin Age: 43 Height: 5’2½” (1.59) Best Ms O: 2nd 2012 In 2013: 3rd Ms International
The IFBB Pro League in 2013 consisted of just three contests which Olympia hopefuls could enter in order to gain qualification for the big show. Two of the contests were won by women competing in their first professional show.
The first contest of the year, the Toronto Pro, was, rather controversially you may recall, awarded to Jennifer Scarpetta. It was not only her first pro show, but her first show of any kind for nearly three years. She had won her pro card at the first attempt as a bodybuilder at the NPC Nationals in 2010, so in terms of win percentages, she has an extremely impressive record. Since Toronto, Jennifer Scarpetta has become Jennifer Abshire after marrying her long-time girlfriend Megan Abshire. It’s been quite a year for her then. And though she’s extremely unlikely to keep that win percentage up and pull off the sort of result she did in Toronto, a good showing in her first Olympia would round it off nicely.
The other first-time pro winner was Tammy Jones, who, unlike Jennifer, took a few more goes at the Nationals before winning her pro card last year. Her memorable message to her doubters after her Nationals victory was reported in full by FMS in our contest review of 2012. Her win in Tampa, while less controversial than Jennifer’s, was no less surprising given the quality and combined contest experience of the women she beat, although I doubt Tammy was surprised. In an interview last year after her Nationals win she said, I’m very competitive and want to beat everybody. I’m not nice to people, I just want to win. My short-term goal is to put on a good 10 pounds of muscle and make it to the Olympia stage. I don’t just want to be on the Olympia stage, I want to be in the mix. I want to be in that top-five group. I want to win! So I’m working very hard to do that. Who’d bet against that kind of determination?
Sandwiched between those two shows was the Chicago Pro, won by Monique Jones for the second year running. After her victory last year, FMS said that there’s something about her frame that says future Ms Olympia, genetically it seems she has a lot of latent potential there that hasn’t been brought out yet. Well, I think it’s safe to say that Monique has brought out the genetic potential in a bucket in 2013. Unlike the other two 2013 winners, Monique has Ms O previous. This will be her third appearance, and FMS expects her to be challenging for the top 3 if she turns up in Las Vegas in anything like the shape she was in in Chicago.
JENNIFER ABSHIRE (USA)
Born: Aurora, Illinois Age: 35 Height: 5’6″ (1.67) Best Ms O: on debut In 2013: Toronto Pro Winner
TAMMY JONES (USA)
Born: Fort Myers, Florida Age: 34 Height: 5’6″ (1.67) Best Ms O: on debut In 2013: Tampa Pro Winner
MONIQUE JONES (USA)
Born: Fort Knox, Kentucky Age: 34 Height: 5’9″ (1.75) Best Ms O: 7th 2012 In 2013: Chicago Pro Winner
This Friday (nice and early in the weekend so the IFBB can get it out of the way no doubt), the 34th Ms Olympia contest takes place in Las Vegas. It’s quite possible, given the attitude of the IFBB towards female bodybuilding, that it will be the last, but that’s not the reason why Steve Wennerstrom has said it is the most significant Ms O since Rachel McLish won the first one in 1980. In fact, the significance of the contest this year is that should Iris Kyle win her ninth title, she will become the most successful Olympian – male or female – ever.
The chances are that she will. If you were able to bet on the contest (you’re not – I’ve been looking for odds for over a week now, so unless you go direct to some back-street Las Vegas bookie, it seems you simply can’t bet on bodybuilding), you’d be crazy to bet on anyone else. Iris Kyle has a contest CV that is second to none, and has won the last seven Ms Os.
Nevertheless, you have to feel that Iris has got a raw deal. Take the Wennerstrom article quoted above. Will Iris Kyle live in infamy? is the title. A strange title given that she is on the cusp of history. Why would the most decorated athlete in the history of the sport have to suffer ‘infamy’? I’ve read the article countless times and still can’t work out why Wennerstrom chose that title. It’s indicative of the negativity that is directed at her, through absolutely no fault of her own.
Furthermore, Iris’ achievements, perhaps because they have come during a period of decline for professional female bodybuilding, are largely unheralded. She has never had the kind of publicity that the other eight-time Ms O, Lenda Murray, enjoyed. By all objective criteria, Iris is the greatest ever female bodybuilder, but it’s unlikely she would come out on top in any poll among fans or even her peers as such.
It’s weird that I find myself feeling slightly sorry fo her (I doubt very much she wants or needs anyone’s sympathy) but as we begin our countdown to the Ms O, spare a thought for the reigning champ. In many ways, Iris is the epitome of all female bodybuilders in this period: she deserves so much better than she actually gets from her sport.
IRIS KYLE (USA)
Born: Benton Harbor, Michigan
Age: 39
Height: 5’7″ (1.70)
Best Ms O: Winner 2001 (heavyweight), 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
In 2013: Ms International Winner
In the coming days, the other 12 women who will be competing on Friday.
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