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Casey Viator's se lf-inflic ted exile was at en end . Back in competition at the N.A.B B A Pro Unoverse. t was good to see bod ybuilding 's youngest M r. Amenca. O€when he suddenly c hose to remove himself from the pos ing ligh t, no one felt that he had reached h1s peak. His fans wanted more, the sp art andVaator fin lly Obi ged. As to the whys an dwherefors? Here's Casey to tell us in hisown words. M .D .: Why the absence fro m

bodybu il d in g , Casey? VIATOR : After you vnn tl>e Mr • ime ica.

where do you go? You go to Weider.And Weid er is weird linle oc topus there in the

comer. You know . It 's k ind of hard to o

half -way associated with htm. You have toJUSt aboutgetup to your h1p boots befOle you can really be accepted and getsquare dea ls. This ki nd of thing bothers me. o that's more or ess why. That's tho main reason for my absence.M.D.: Wha t decide< you to get back

in to competit io n?

VIATOR : Well. you get to. certain pointin you r life where you say, heck . if I don't do it now, I ll got old an d reg ret it. the only reason I thought about rolling back n. But now your face< with having to

or ry ing to find an unbiased ompetition. This is really hard unless ou're assoc iated with peop le; people tha t te in the game fat pro l it . ll 's rough. Jus tsk Szkalak. In most contests I could just

abou t write predic tions out A guy won'ttay in bodybuilding if he's gelling ammed all the time . M.D.: Wha t dec ided you to fi na lly get

nto the NABBA th in g? VIATOR: I fell that contest had a littleeaning. and the people there treated me eal good until I got of f the p lane in ondon. Then I began to feel a little bit of esitation tr0€0 everyone . As a manet of

ct .bcfa<e I put my PQSJng trunks on Inew I had lost.M.D.: How d id you come to find th a t ut? VIATOR: Fr0€0 the people that knew hat's goin g on.Some ol the ~ owne<s nd some people from Germany in formed e too. So, sight unseen, I'd been beat. I as disappointed abou t the whole thing nd I want to emphas1ze that the whole ntest was disappaontmem.especia ll y e way was run. M.D.: In wha t ways specific a ll y? VIATOR : The d isorganiza tion: o f evon e he1ght c lass. I see Ihat Johns wa s in

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