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  1. 09-28-2013, 07:51 PM #1
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    Company bribes

    DO you think supplement companies attempt to bribe/pay off the judges to vote for their sponsored athletes?
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    Lots of politics in the sport.
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    I don't see how there could not be with the value of the industry being in the billions. To what level i'll never know or attempt to guess.
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    Billions? I don't think so. If you combine all the related, maybe.
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    IN 2009 the supplement industry was valued at $61 billion.
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    Supp industry is not the bodybuilding industry. I guess I misunderstood.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DAAS
    DO you think supplement companies attempt to bribe/pay off the judges to vote for their sponsored athletes?
    Of course they do. Why would they be any different than any other corporation that drops a lot of cash behind the scenes to keep their name in the spotlight?
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    I don't see how any sport can be legitimate when its decided by judges, especially one as subjective as bbing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DAAS View Post
    DO you think supplement companies attempt to bribe/pay off the judges to vote for their sponsored athletes?
    YES I would say perks are given for favrable outcomes
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    Any complex machine needs to be well oiled to function and when you say business you can be sure that there are attempts to influence judgements be it directly or indirectly in one direction or another...

    its common everywhere in the world...some do it overtly, others under the table...its human nature
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    Quote Originally Posted by DAAS View Post
    DO you think supplement companies attempt to bribe/pay off the judges to vote for their sponsored athletes?
    I'm sure there is some bribing that is going on. But you also got to figure that it'd be easy for the supplement companies to just give endorsement deals to the athletes that win AND can generate a following.
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    I read an article that said itd be pretty hard. They throw out the highest and lowest scores and average the rest. so unless a company could pay off half or one more than half of the judges..... It wouldn't do much
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