In the Ms. Olympia, Iris Kyle took her third victory over Dayana Cadeau and Yaxeni Oriquen.  Alaska’s own Valentina Chepiga maintained her rock hard conditioning and fantastic feminine symmetry, but due to lack of size placed outside the top 6.  Good news for Alaska, she has qualified to compete next year!  Don’t forget she will be guest posing on October 20 at the NPCAlaska Crystal Cup!

In the Figure Olympia, Jenny Lyn took first once again in a very tough competition. Surprisingly, Monica Brandt failed to make the top 5 despite beautiful symmetry and hardness.

Fitness Olympia Champion Adela Garcia looked phenomenal in her high energy routine.

The Mr. Olympia top six were as follows:

6^th place – Melvin Anthony.  For all of those of you that can remember, Melvin guest posed in Alaska at a show called the Artic Bodybuilding championships back in about 1996.  He had exceptional symmetry and the best posing routine of the evening.  Hard and symmetrical, he lacked only size of the other top 6 competitors.

5^th place – Dennis Wolf.  The Surprise of the entire competition, the 6’5 Big Bad Wolf looked PHENOMENAL.  Symmetrical, hard AND huge… and in a LOT of opinions the overall winner of the show.  During prejudging, he was never placed side by side with Jay, Victor or Ronnie so the only time you got to see him posing beside any of them was in the overall pose-down.  We expect him to place higher next year.  Don’t be surprised to see this guy with the overall title sometime in the near future!

4^th place – Ronnie Coleman.  Ronnie came in visibly softer, and not as separated as in prior years.  You could see the toll a torn lat and triceps has taken on his body, the left side noticeably smaller than his right.  Ronnie did get a standing ovation, and played the part of a champion well.  Thanks for the memories Ronnie!

3^rd Dexter Jackson – The Blade lived up to his nickname, coming in shredded as always.  His full muscles, vascular and tiny waist made his 230lb physique look much larger than it was.  He held in well with those outweighing him by 50lbs.

2^nd Victor Martinez – In my own opinion (and half the crowds) Victor should have taken the overall.  During prejudging, he was hard, full, shredded and had some of the best legs ever seen on an Olympia stage.  You could see every striation from the side!   We can’t wait to see him after a two week carb up at our show on October 20^th!

1^st Jay Cutler – Jay had probably the closest call of his career tonight.  He appeared softer than Martinez during the Prejudging, but hardened up quite a bit before the Evening show on Saturday.  The final call came from the overall pose-down, with Victor and Jay almost tied leading into the posing round.

That’s pretty much the story, we look forward to seeing you October 20 at the 2007 NPCAlaska Crystal Cup Fitness, Figure and Bodybuilding Championships!