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Sergio Oliva is a bodybuilder known as “The Myth”.This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Wayne had begun calling Oliva “The Myth” “(because everyone who saw him at the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair said he was “JUST UNBELIEVABLE”)”.

  • The first non-white athlete to win Mr. America, Mr. World, Mr. International, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia.
  • The second bodybuilder to win the Mr. Olympia competition.
  • The only bodybuilder to ever defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Mr Olympia contest, 1969.
  • The only Mr. Olympia champion to ever win uncontested in 1968.
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