Valery Shary In the Late 1960s
Champion of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus cleans the weight at one of the competitions in the late 1960s. So far, I wasn’t able to identify the tournament. My initial...
Champion of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus cleans the weight at one of the competitions in the late 1960s. So far, I wasn’t able to identify the tournament. My initial...
History in Color: Alym Achichaev was one of the best Soviet athletes in the 100kg weight class in the late 1970s. He won the USSR championship in 1976, the USSR Cup in 1975 and...
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
One. Two. Three. It’s a hat trick for Brad Marchand in the Bruins vs. Canucks game in Vancouver. Go Bruins!
Our backyard visitors are a little concerned. “Snow storm in Mid March, huh?” Mr. Cardinal is a little worried. These guys don’t watch TV or listen to weather forecast. Some already came back from...
Just a quick snapshot from the porch of the on-going snow storm in our area. We didn’t get that much snow so far but it’s very windy, cold and wet outside. The ocean behind...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… There were two months left before the beginning of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Yury Vlasov broke 6 (six !!!) world records in Podolsk, Russia...
“Oh no!!!!” Mr. Cardinal kept chirping in our backyard this morning. “It’s snow again!” The news about upcoming snow storm caught our little fellas off guard. Not only them, I guess.
The original photo was taken during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Italy. Those were the tallest and the shortest members of the Olympic Team CCCP – Janis Krumins (218 cm, basketball, silver medal)...