Bodybuilding championships draw ripped competitors in Bangkok

Bodybuilders from more than 30 Asian countries, along with a few Europeans, gathered in Thailand on Friday. They are meeting to compete in the fourth East Asian Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Championships.

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Female bodybuilders Sun Danyan of China, left, and Natalia Lukashevich of Singapore flex their muscles during the Asian and World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, Oct. 7.

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Abbas Bakhtari of Iran flexes his muscles in front of other competitors during the Asian World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championship.

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Female bodybuilder Khanittha Makongsuk of Thailand flexes during the Asian and World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships in Bangkok.

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South Koreans Kim Jae Wook, left, and Jang Hee Seong warm up ahead of the Asian and World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships.



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What is up with Koreans dipping themselves in chocolate before bodybuilding competitions?

    Reply#1 - Fri Oct 7, 2011 1:52 PM EDT

    Everybody does that bro, even if you're naturally as dark as an Asian, you'll be glowing like the moon under those stage lights brah, def not what they mean when saying "light up the stage"

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    Reply#2 - Fri Oct 7, 2011 4:36 PM EDT

    Check out those rhomboid majors on the women! Wohoo!!

      Reply#3 - Sat Oct 8, 2011 12:44 AM EDT
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