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Russian `schwarzenegger` becomes No. 1 in world

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Published 12 November, 2007, 12:04

The bodybuilding world championships have been held in Yekaterinburg. It was a Russian whose toned torso was bronzed enough to take the gold. Pavel Chernenko can now say he's officially the number one muscle man on the planet.

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