Bodybuilding star Jo Lindner died in the arms of his girlfriend after suffering an aneurysm
The sudden death of the German has once again awakened the controversy over substance use in the discipline
Bodybuilding star Jo Lindner, with more than nine million followers on Instagram, He died in the arms of his girlfriend after suffering an aneurysm. The German’s sudden death has once again awakened the controversy over substance use in the discipline. In recent days, the athlete had expressed resuming the testosterone replacement therapy.
“I have tried to stop, I know it can have long-term effects on your life,” the 30-year-old said on his social networks. This loss is added to the recent death of Christian Figuereido, a Brazilian bodybuilder, champion of his country’s Musclecontest. The athlete He died at the age of 29 from a stroke. while he was undergoing surgery for some nodules in his liver.
Roberto Amorosi Hernandezfounder and CEO of la Natural Bodybuilding School and president of WNBF SPAINdefends this current of bodybuilding in which doping substances are not used. “If they carried out tests in bodybuilding, no one would compete. No one in Mister Olympia – the most famous event in bodybuilding – has ever tested positive. No tests are carried out and all participants assume that this is the case”.
“There was an attempt to get bodybuilding into the Olympic Games and both WADA and the COE said no way because it did not comply with anti-doping standards”, he added. “But there is another more serious thing and that is that in the end the one who pays the price is the kid who starts at the gym and encounters this fauna and these references that teach you how to dope. People who, without being endocrinologists, doctors or nutritionists, prescribe drugs and supply them. “It has become a public health problem,” he said. Roberto Amorosi.
“People associate chemistry with the gym. It’s their tagline. A sport where the one who uses the most drugs is rewarded and world leaders tell you that they do everything And I don’t recommend it, but many have even set up their schools to train people on how to mess with the excuse that they save lives. As if we had schools for anorexics,” he says from the Natural Bodybuilding School.