Dorian Yates
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And he passed away on a tour.
because he was doing extreme things with water and diuretics.
And they actually did introduce testing for diuretics in 1996 in the Mr. Olympia because people were concerned about this.
There was a few guys that died just trying to get dehydrated and get in condition.
But I think...
Somebody failed the test and challenged it legally, and it didn't stand up.
So then they just dropped it.
They did steroid testing, interestingly, in 1990.
How did that go?
Sorry.
Take a look online.
You could look online, 1990, Mr. Olympia.
I don't know because they didn't publish the weights.
But Lee Haney still won it.
He was maybe a bit lucky to beat Lee Labrada.
But I'd say Haney was probably 20 pounds down.
I mean, the fans were like, fuck this.
We want to pay like a couple hundred dollars to see, you know, guys that are a lot less than before.
We want to see the same or more.
You know, nobody wants to see a guy run 100 meters in 11 seconds when they've seen under 10 seconds.