Monthly Archive: August 2017
Such an Uncommon Common Grackle
This is birds molting in action. “Don’t even think about it!” chirped Mr. Common Grackle when I point my camera at him. Oh, well. Don’t we all have a moment of molting now and...
Scream For No Scream
It was created by Edvard Munch and became known as The Scream. Classics of expressionism later became an artifact of modern pop culture. Originally, it was called by its author as Der Schrei der...
Bohuslav Braum, Czechoslovakia
Continuing our World Wide Rigert-O-Mania, we introduce the photo of super heavyweight Bohuslav Braum of Czech Republic. Bohuslav Braum (born in 1956) represented Czechoslovakia in 1979-1984. He won the bronze world and European medal...
Arnold Luhaaar: Berlin, 1936
On the photo, Arnold Luhaasr competes for Estonia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Arnold Luhaaar (1905-1965) was one of the strongest Olympic weightlifters of the 1920s and 1930s. He competed at the...
Ivanchenko at the 1972 National Championship
The cover photo of the History in Color series features Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko at the 1972 Championship of the USSR. Ivanchenko was one of the strongest athletes in this class in the...
World Wide Weightlifting: Rigert-o-Mania
“I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the competitive platform. For a starter, David Rigert is an Olympic champion, 6x World Champion,...
Just a Matter Of Technique
The History in Color cover photo depicts Yurik Vardanyan competing at the tournament of World Record Makers in Las Vegas in August 1978. Style wise, it is a very rare case when Yurik did...
Alfred Neuland (Estonia)
Olympic champion Alfred Neuland (1895-1966) of Valga, Estonia was definitely one of the landmark athletes in the history of modern Olympic weighting. Neuland was a pioneer of the snatcn/clean squat style technique and was...