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The Lift Up:History in Color series: Legendary Finnish Olympic weightlifter Kaarlo Kangasniemi lifting in the snatch part of the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 90kg weight class in Mexico City. 27-year old Kangasniemi won...
The Lift Up:History in Color series: The head coach of Team CCCP Weightlifting Alexey Medvedev is discussing the training plan with the super heavyweight candidate to Team CCCP Aslanbek Yenaldiev. Medvedev was an ex-super...
Mr. Cardinal likes his food crunchy. Don’t you see a happy smile on his face?
The Lift Up:History in Color series: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov is getting ready to perform the snatch lift at the 1979 Spartakiada in Leningrad, Russia. He managed to lift 420kg in total (185+235) at...
Rudolf Plyukfelder in the Lift Up: History In Color series. Plyukfelder (b. 1928) was a milestone figure in the history of the Soviet and international weightlifting. He proved his legendary status as both active Olympic...
The cover photo from the Lift Up: History in Color series features early Gyozo Veres (1936-2011) setting up a new press world record in Budapest in May 1962. He pressed 155kg in the light...
As a continuation of our Lift Up: History In Color series, here is a re-mastered photo from the 1970s featuring legendary Vasily Alexeev lifting weights in the… Don river. The b/w original was published...
The places that makes us happy are amazing. Some are only happy to live in the palaces. Some prefer to live in the paper boxes. Mountains and valleys, cities and villages, east and west,...
What is it? It’s an American Robin enjoying the beginning of springtime.
Legendary hockey player Vladimir Petrov died in Moscow, Russia. He was 69. It’s a very sad news for all people in the world who love hockey. Petrov was a fantastic hockey player. He had...