Close Finish
Sunday, October 1, 2017, Suffolk Downs – Close finish in Race 7 on the last day of live racing at the Suffolk Downs. Any guesses who won? … and the winner was No. 8...
Sunday, October 1, 2017, Suffolk Downs – Close finish in Race 7 on the last day of live racing at the Suffolk Downs. Any guesses who won? … and the winner was No. 8...
RLOL is a little tag for Russian humor. Most of the times, it’s almost impossible to translate or to try to explain it. You’ve got to grow up in Russia to be able to...
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright One of the greatest playwrights in...
History in Color: USA vs. USSR (1958) Team CCCP Weightlifting arrived to the United States in May 1958. The original black-and-white photo might have looked a bit comic. The authors even called them...
On the History in Color photo, legendary U.S. weightlifters are training in the good old York Barbell gym in York, PA. I know it might sound too pathetic – too many “legendaries” here. It’s...
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine jerks 190kg in the 3rd attempt, sets a world record in total (485kg) and wins the 1966 World...
On the History in Color photo, Soviet super heavyweight Stanislav Batishchev is going for his 3rd attempt in the snatch lift (170kg). Stanislav Batishchev (1940-2011) of Donetsk, Ukraine was a very strong athlete with...
Just added the new items to the Lift Up project. One of them is the great USA vs. USSR weightlifting series of matches in 1955. The matches were a part of a good will...
September 23.2017, Ashgabat – Sohrab Moradi of Iran sets a new world record in total (413kg) in the 94kg class. Interestingly enough, the day before this remarkable event Sohrab turned 29. Moradi snatched 185kg...