Let the Battle Begin!!

V-103A 1980 Mr. Olympia Part 2 - The Lost Footage

Those of you who read my FAQ explanation on V-103 and how I thought I had missed the awards from 6th down to 1st can breath a sigh of relief.  But that is not the only good news.

I found, in a box of old films, my film out-takes from the 1 hour edit of this video from many years ago.  I also obtained form a friend his rare film footage of the 1980 Mr. Olympia.  It was shot from the centre of the Sydney Opera House from a totally different position to mine.

By putting together his "new found footage" and mine, we have the missing pieces from the 1980 Mr. Olympia.  The footage is primarily form the prejudging where  you will see 13 of the 16 competitors as they walk out on stage.  I don't know what I had against the 3 that I missed! (Padilla, Callendar and Walker).

The competitors are shown in symmetry round 1 in a full lineup, and then quarter turns as groups of 3, 4 and 5.  You see plenty of Arnold being compared with various people from Mike Mentzer to Zane to Walker.

Next it is Round 2 comparisons with the compulsory poses, groups of 4.  Again see Arnold and Mike Mentzer side by side.  You will also see a group comparison which happens to include the top 3.  This segment includes Boyer Coe and Roger Walker standing on either side of Arnold with Zane, Mentzer and Chris Dickerson all together.  Followed by Arnold, Coe, Zane and Callendar as they fight it out, pose for pose.

The tape also includes John Terilli posing as winner of the Best in Australia contest, plus an excerpt of Reg Park guest posing.  See posing clips from the following Olympians:  Danny Padilla, Boyer Coe, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roger Walker, Roy Callendar, Mike Mentzer, Tony Emmott, Samir Bannout, Frank Zane, Chris Dickerson, Dennis Tinerino, Tom Platz and Casey Viator.

Finally the exciting posedown of the top 7 as Walker and Callendar were level on points at this stage.  With Callendar finally taking 7th place.

The top 7 are compared in compulsory poses and then it's the exciting pose down.

Not to be missed the newly discovered complete final awards from 6th place through to 1st place.  Top 6 being as follows:
1.  ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
2.  CHRIS DICKERSON
3.  FRANK ZANE
4.  BOYER COE
5.  MIKE MENTZER
6.  ROGER WALKER

The other competitors from 7th to 16th were:
7.  ROY CALLENDAR
8.  DENNIS TINERINO
9.  TOM PLATZ
10. DANNY PADILLA
11. ED CORNEY
12. TONY EMMOTT
13. ROY DUVAL
14. CASEY VIATOR
15. SAMIR BANNOUT
16. KEN WALLER

I am sure you will enjoy this 22 minutes of Olympia history.

My special thanks to Norm Komich for loaning me his original 1980 Mr. Olympia films so that I could digitally transfer them to video for editing with my own 'lost' footage.

The complete event is also available as a 2-DVD set V-103DVDSP.  DVD 1 is the original 60 minutes, and DVD # 2 is the extra 'new' footage.