SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Larry Dee Scott, a pioneering bodybuilder, rose to fame in the 1960s and was the first Mr. Olympia won the best international competition, died at the age of 75.
Scott died Saturday, according to the morgue Lindquist in bountiful, Utah. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease, the Web page for his nutritional supplement company reported. The man who come, known in the bodybuilding world as "The Legend", was born in the small town of Blackfoot, Idaho in 1938. After winning the Mr.-Idaho bodybuilding competition in 1959, he moved to California.
There he became one of the top bodybuilders of the world, to win a variety of major competitions. He won Mr. America 1962 and Mr. universe 1963-1964 1965 and in 1966 he won the first Mr. Olympia.
Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition in the world is considered the most important. Today is the annual contest in Las Vegas instead.
Scott was best known for his 20-inch biceps, chiselled, Act the "preacher curl" exercise, which taught him as a teenager by bodybuilder Vince Gironda. Today, some call it the 'Scott curl"because he made it known.
Scott by his wife Rachel, and their five children survived, says his obituary. He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, and he and his wife were married in the Los Angeles Temple.
Funeral services are set for Saturday in bountiful, a town with about 43,000 North of Salt Lake City.
His family said in the obituary that Scott took everything in life with zeal in attack.
"There was no hobby or adventure, he half-heartedly undertook, a legacy that carries on his children, grandchildren and others who knew him," the obituary says.
