Alexander Kurynov: Olympic Gold Medal in Rome (1960)
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Middleweight Alexander Kurynov of Team USSR performs a snatch lift on his way to his gold medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1960...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Middleweight Alexander Kurynov of Team USSR performs a snatch lift on his way to his gold medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1960...
History in Color: June 14, 1978, Havirov, Czechoslovakia – Vice champion of the 1976 Summer Olympics, 28-year-old middleweight Vartan Militosyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes for the Soviet national team in the 75kg weight...
History in Color: October 27, 1951, Milan, Italy – Peter George, 22-year old middleweight of Akron, OH, jerks 157.5kg in the 75kg weight class and wins a gold medal at the 1951 World Championships...
History in Color: December 18, 1973, Tuapse, Russia – Super heavyweight winners at the medal ceremony of the 110+kg class at the 1973 USSR Cup held at the Seaman Palace in Tuapse (left to...
The day of December 28, 2019 marks the 10th Anniversary of the death of legendary super heavyweight lifter Khristo Plachkov (1953-2009) of Bulgaria. He was truly a legend in the history of Olympic weightlifting....
History in Color: October 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old Stefan Topurov of Team Bulgaria sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (180kg) in the 60kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships...
Northern Harrier as seen last week in Ponte Vedra, FL. Also known as marsh hawks, harriers are birds of prey. They fly low close to the ground hunting small animals by surprise. Some saw...
Lady Cardinal as seen this morning in Ponte Vedra, FL. She even chirped a lovely Christmas song to us.
Merry Christmas from our place in Florida! No snow but tons of warm and kind feelings to all.
That’s what this fella at the vet clinic told Bernie C. and me. The parrot fella wasn’t a patient there – rather a live-in entertainer and he did his part fabulously. He cheered us...