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Stunning SAF Elite star Mymuna Nasrin placed 3rd in the short category at the 2010 Arnold Amateur Bikini Championships held March 4 in Columbus, Ohio, USA (seen second from right in photo).

Mymuna was in a class of 37 women who came from all over the world to compete. This was Mymuna's first time competing at the Arnold Amateur and her top-3 finish signifies amazing success and a bright future for this SAF star. Mymuna will compete next at the 2010 SAF Toronto Elite Challenge on June 26, 2010.

With the 2010 Winter Olympics coming to an amazing close, I feel unbelievably proud to be Canadian. At every free moment between work and training, we turned on CTV to give us updates on the progress of our Canadian athletes. I found myself, more than once, on the edge of my seat cheering for an athlete competing in a sport I truly knew nothing about.

The desire for these athletes to perform their best was overwhelming and exhilerating. The amount of dedication, discipline, drive, determination, etc. (the list goes on), not to mention the physical demands placed on these athletes, is truly inspiring. What I found even more inspirational was the stories behind the athletes and how, in the face of adversity, they strived to make themselves, their families and friends, and their country proud. Take the figure skater, Joannie Rochette, whose mother passed away suddenly four days before she was to compete, she managed to perform beautifully and won a bronze medal. Another amazing story was from the aerial skiier, Alexandre Bilodeau, who won gold. His brother and best friend has Cerebral Palsy and was told he would never walk. He DOES walk and is Alexandre’s inspiration to keep going when things get challenging.