Truth be told, I wouldn't expect the new #1 Female Bodybuilder in the world to sleep much the night after, though exactly what I imagine her doing all night is probably best left unsaid. Alina, we do know, graced the after party in a tight (what else could it be?) black one-piece, tiara still on. What we don't know is when (or indeed if) she left.
I'm hoping Alina will get it, wrote one chat room lurker before the show started. It'll piss Margie off and she'll come back next year as massive and ripped as ever.
I have to admit, my own foresight for Female Bodybuilding doesn't stretch quite that far ahead, but at least he was pleased with the result. Five or six years ago an Alina triumph at the Olympia would have been met with (metaphorical) dancing in the streets by the female muscle lovin' community. That's not been the case with her Rising Phoenix win though. Fine - I guess, was how Implants and Muscles greeted the news. [Sheila] Shoulda won, but what do I know? I'm just a pervert into muscle women.
Others were not so modest about their judging qualifications, nor - it seems - very clear about how many women actually get to finish first. [Alina] Has no calves and [was] not so dry - top progress but for me not place one, observed one (apparently highly knowledgeable) forum head. Margie and Sheila is [sic] for me first place.
Alina is AMAZING but I agree, reads one response. It's almost like the judges were taking her injuries into account and grading on a curve. Or, they thought she was so phenomenal from the knees up that she won regardless. Who can say?
Well, the judges could probably tell you if you asked them nicely. Her lack of calves is the result of an injury apparently, I'm not up on all the facts. A lot was said about them after her win in Tampa in early August, and again there has been a lot of focus on them (or the lack of them) since the weekend. However, while I thought there might be some controversy if Alina won, I imagined conspiracy rather than calves would be the cry.
After all, Alina is as close to the centre of the Wings of Strength world as it is possible to be. There's even an enormous Alina at WoS headquarters - making it, whether or not other FBBs hang there as well, FMS' official Most Desirable Workplace in the World. It was bound to look like a fix to someone, and here he is - Who are the judges? "outraged" demands to know. Does Jake Wood have a big say in these things?
Yeah, man. He set the whole thing up just so his girl could win...
Nonsense of course, but you can see how the right combination of great ignorance and a little information could lead a weak mind to that conclusion. Jake was, in fact, at pains to thank the judges on Saturday night "for making sense of everything going on on stage for us. Without them," he continued, "we'd all just be..." I didn't actually catch exactly what he said - "running around" is what I heard, but I'm not sure.
Might be a good competition for WoS to run that. Perhaps the first prize could be a day at the WoS booth with all the ladies (or better still a month-long internship at WoS headquarters!). Simply complete the following sentence in no more than 12 words: Without the judges at Female Bodybuilding contests, we'd all just be...
Driving off into the sunset with Alina in her new Corvette?
Oh wait! That's probably what Jake did!
Big cheque she won too. Big enough to wear it seems.
All of this moaning, however, is fake news really, just a lot of wind (as my ol' Nan - God rest her soul - used to say). The vast majority of fans and Alina's peers (ie. the women who really know what's going on) have been falling over themselves to congratulate her. Along with all her fellow competitors on the night, Dana Shemesh, Jessica Martin, Cristina Maffeis, Ekaterina Grima, Hannah Hallman, Jeannie Paparone, Zoa Linsey, Kennedy Ledgerwood, Noelle Rockwell, Janine Lankowski, Christal Cornick, Valentina Mishina, Aleesha, and of course, her friend, countrywoman and 2018 Hottest Hard Woman in the World Oana Hreapca are just some of the thousands - literally thousands - who have left messages of congratulations for Alina on social media in the last couple of days.
I do have a soft hard spot for Valentina's touching tribute: You deserve it, my Queen. But if you had to pick one of them to express the sentiments of all, it might be this one: CONGRATULATIONS, Alina. In my opinion, you absolutely should have been a World Champion before, but what matters is you are FINALLY a World Champion... NOW.
Enjoy!
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