The Arnold Sports Festival comes to Columbus, bringing more than 150,000 visitors to Columbus venues including the Greater Columbus Convention Center, the Ohio Expo Center, the LC Pavilion and the Hollywood Casino. Co-founders Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Lorimer were not necessarily thinking about spanning the globe with multi-sports events when they held the original Arnold Classic in 1989 in Columbus, said Lorimer, the 89-year-old Worthington native and longtime friend of the bodybuilder, actor and former California governor.