Olympia 2017: Jill Diorio

I may have gone a bit over the top yesterday when describing Jill Diorio as "the most muscular woman in the contest". But if she wasn't, she was certainly the most freaky; the most, we might say, "FBB-like". Or perhaps not. Some FBBs don't even look that good, wrote one forum poster after the Olympia. She is mind blowing! Freaky goes a lot further with the fans than the judges, you see, and Jill's freakery has made her the Olympia sensation among the brethren, the female muscle people's choice if you like. Seriously, she got robbed, adds our poster, articulating an opinion shared by many.



We've met Jill previously on FMS, Jill and her calves, her calves that she doesn't train "that much". Back then in May she had just made her IFBB pro Physique debut in St. Louis, which was a couple of months before she won the Puerto Rico Pro to qualify for the Olympia. We noted how she was quite a lot more than just the sum of her freakish calves, and how she'd taken breaks between contests before and come back after each of them "exponentially better". Her physique at the Olympia was once again a huge improvement on her Puerto Rico package. Those in the Diorio-know were salivating before she took to the stage. Those who weren't were given a right royal treat.



She was in the sort of condition where even her cheeks looked ripped. At the Olympia she looked SICK! another forum poster noted, Too cut for the judges, but I LOVE IT!




He was not alone.

She was, we collectively decided, "exceptional", "flawless", "breathtaking". Her back double biceps in particular got the boys' attention. Rock hard, symmetrical, big and sexy! wrote one fan, new at the Diorio party. One of the best physiques I've ever seen.



It's hard to disagree, or to say anything negative about Jill's 2017 Olympia package, even when you take off your female muscle lust goggles and try to be objective...



OK, she's not got the most balanced physique because her lower body is SO ridiculously good, and she doesn't look quite as good from the front as she does from the back, but that back is SO perfect... So what were the judges doing "insulting" her with no place at all in the top 15? She should switch to Bodybuilding, noted one forum poster. If she keeps turning up looking bigger and bigger and more and more ripped every time, he may well have a point. Her pal and former Physique co-competitor Hanna Hallman's done it and is happy as hell that she did. Why shouldn't Jill?



So we seem to have arrived at one of those collective intakes of breath, like when we didn't know if Shannon was going to carry on being an FBB or "downsize" to Physique. Will we see Jill less ripped and less freaky, attempting to curry favour with those pesky IFBB judges? Or will we see her next year hitting that back double biceps on full power, closed fists and everything! And probably doing a lot better than Hanna as a Bodybuilder, no disrespect, but Jill could do very well at early season shows like Toronto methinks. Who knows? She might even start training her calves a bit more.



Yikes!