Bodybuilder Finishes First in Fake Tan Blunders

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He had your bulging muscles, the actual ripped abs, your tiny g-string as well as the darker-than-dark bronzed skin required to earn virtually any bodybuilding competition.

The simply factor a new competitor at the Arnold Schwarzenegger-backed Arnold Classic Europe fitness event within Madrid final weekend ended up being missing would end up being a fake brown in his head.

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Instead the bodybuilder, Aleksander Mandahl regarding Norway, stood proudly around the competition's stage, flexing his chiseled, practically black body while his blindingly white head stood out upon top.

The whole episode appeared as if the bodybuilder had muttered Schwarzenegger's famous "I'll end up being back" movie collection inside the midst regarding his self-tanning, only to by zero means return.



The fake bronze fall short happened during the Arnold Sports Festival that the former governor of California, along using a former Mr. Universe too, delivered to Europe together with co-promoter Jim Loirmer and additionally the president of the International Federation involving Bodybuilding, Dr Rafael Santonja.

While the particular suntan blunder has created headlines, the spokesperson for your festival says inside the realm of bodybuilding, the look just isn't in any kind of way strange.

"There were 600 competitors in the amateur competition and thus they most obtain some kind of squirt tan and it's actually not too unusual to not really spray the face," Brent LaLonde, any spokesman for Arnold Classic Europe informed ABCNews.com. "While the photo looks unique, inside the world of amateur bodybuilding it's truly not unusual to see that look onstage."

Schwarzenegger took a break through his latest book advertising tour to attend the actual three-day event but it wasn't fake bronze man whom he congratulated for winning the top prize. According to LaLonde, Mandahl positioned 4 th within the Classic Bodybuilding More Than 180cm category.

In the particular expert competition, it absolutely was Shawn Rhoden, a Jamaican bodybuilder, that both took 1st place as well as won a new individual congratulations from the "Terminator" star.

"Congratulations in order to Shawn Rhoden, the actual 2012 Arnold Classic Europe Champion!" Schwarzenegger tweeted to the champ.