“YOU CAN’T JUST
HAVE GREAT SIZE
AND NOT HAVE
CONDITIONING.
AND YOU CAN’T
JUST HAVE
CONDITIONING
WITHOUT GOOD
SIZE AND SHAPE.”
McMillan’s 10th), but he can take
consolation in the fact that he was
only one point behind Beyeke in
the final tally, and he earned one
of the loudest roars of pre-
judging with his freakish glute
rolling. (What’s glute rolling?
It’s a Lukas thing.) Beckham
and Martinez were disqualified
when they failed to show up for
Saturday’s show.
FINAL CALLOUT
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DEXTER JACKSON
Bonac, Heath, Elssbiay. Here it
was—the top three. The champ
started in the coveted centre
space, but when Weinberger
moved Elssbiay there, much of the
crowd bellowed approval, and
Ramy applauded as if clashing
cymbals. Heath laughed. Ramy
exerted his width advantage over
the other two, seemingly taking up
twice as much space with his hang
glider rear lat spread. Bonac was
moved to the middle, and the
crowd cheered again. When
Heath ended in the centre spot
again, some in the audience
booed. Seven years is a long time.
FINALS
Twenty hours later, backstage
before Saturday’s finals, Heath
wore a Terminator T-shirt as a
nod to the legend he would soon
catch. (Later, he posed to music
from the Conan the Barbarian
soundtrack.) I asked him about
the shuffling of positions in the
last callout the night before. “I
think the fans need to see that,” he
says. “I can see how the fans get
riled up when their favourite guy
gets moved to the middle, and I
like seeing that. I think the
showmanship and fun were there
last night. They were creeping the
line [moving in front of the stage’s
taped line] and all that. They were
doing every trick that I taught
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