Bodybuilding reveals off muscle groups in Pan Am Video games debut
Mauro DiazESPN
LIMA, Peru — The model of bodybuilding that debuted Saturday on the 2019 Pan American Video games seeks to emphasise symmetry and concord within the human type over muscle bulk. Make no mistake, nevertheless; preening, pecs and poses had been entrance and middle on the Coliseo Mariscal Cáceres.
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Full with dance routines and feats of flexibility in entrance of judges, bodybuilding could at some point obtain its long-term goal of turning into an Olympic sport. Within the meantime, high-powered digicam lenses outnumbered laptops within the media space as curious onlookers sought a peek earlier than the Video games’ first gold medals in males’s basic bodybuilding and ladies’s bikini health had been awarded to El Salvador’s Yuri Rodriguez and Paulina Zamora.
Rafael Santonja, president of the Madrid-based Worldwide Federation of Bodybuilding and Health, welcomed spectators to the venue, beaming like all proud father would.
“These magnificent athletes are making their dream come true,” he stated of the 32 individuals from the Americas moments earlier than the beginning of the ladies’s prejudging.
Paulina Zamora of El Salvador turns heads together with her health routine on the Pan American Video games. AP Photograph/Rodrigo Abd
Basic males’s bodybuilding was acknowledged as a brand new self-discipline by IFBB in November 2005, responding to calls for for competitions for males preferring a less-muscular but nonetheless athletic physique. Girls’s health locations an emphasis on femininity and coordination with music.
Bodybuilding was an illustration sport on the 2015 Pan American Video games in Toronto and was added to the 2019 lineup a yr later. It’s not, nevertheless, within the lineup for the time being for the 2023 Pan American Video games in Santiago, Chile.
The USA didn’t have an entry in Lima 2019.
A volunteer takes a peek on the debut of ladies’s bikini health on the Pan American Video games. AP Photograph/Rodrigo Abd
Rivals make their first-round impressions on the males’s basic bodybuilding occasion. AP Photograph/Rodrigo Abd
El Salvador swept the primary bodybuilding gold medals on the Pan American Video games with Paulina Zamora and Yuri Rodriguez. AP Photograph/Rodrigo Abd