If Not Today Then Tomorrow
“If not today, then tomorrow you will be able to lift it up…” Those were the words of my coach. I was a young and emotional lifter. I was a fighter on the competition...
Daily Archive: August 9, 2017
Father and Baby Finches
“She is always hungry” chirped father finch to me. “Yes, I am” confirmed baby finch next to him. From our Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
David D. Amiss: Back in Town
Jockey David D. Amiss was back at the Suffolk Downs for two weekends in July and August with the live racing events. He had a great season here last year and was the 2016...
Bronislav Ryzhik
Bronislav Ryzhik of Zaporozye, Ukraine was one of the best Soviet flyweights of the 1980s. He was a world record holder, won the USSR Championships in 1983, 1984, 1985, USSR Summer Spatakiad in 1983, USSR...
Vorobyev (1954)
Cover photo features legendary Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev performing the clean-and-jerk lift in the heavy middleweight class at the 1954 World Championship in Vienna, Austria. By the end of this tournament, Vorobyev won...
Team CCCP Weightlifting in Tsaghkadzor (1978)
One of the group photos of the national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The estimated time of the photo session is 1978. Left to right: Front row: Vartan Militosyan,...
Cholokyan
The cover photo from our History In Color series this time features Artavaz Cholokyan, the star of Georgian weightlifting of the 1960s. Artavaz Cholokyan was a flyweight Olympic weightlifter. He competed for the Dynamo...
