2024!
Happy New Year 2024 for those who is interested in international hockey history and/or… doesn’t mind numerology 🙂
Happy New Year 2024 for those who is interested in international hockey history and/or… doesn’t mind numerology 🙂
Warmest WIshes for a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy Holiday Season from all of us to all of you.
Legendary flyweight champion Kanybek Osmonaliev of Kyrzgyzstan turns 70! Kanybek Osmonaliev was a phenomenal flyweight of Team CCCP. From mid 1970s to mid 1980s, he won the 1980 Olympics, 4 World championships, 2 European...
History in Color: April 11, 1956, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year featherweight Victor Korzh of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in press (113.5kg) in the 60kg weight class at the international tournament...
Art Ritzik (Jim Belushi): Where’d you learn to speak English so well? Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger): Army. Compulsory training. Language school in Kiev. Art Ritzik: Oh, yeah. That’s like as in Chicken Kiev. Yeah,...
Legends of Olympic weightlifting, Anatoly Pisarenko (Ukraine) and Zygmunt Smalcerz (Poland) back in the 1980s and today at the 2023 Weightlifting Masters World Championships in Wieliczka, Poland
July 20, 2023 – Sad news came from Lviv, Ukraine. Legendary Soviev flyweight Adam Gnatov passed away in his hometown at 78. Adam Gnatov competed in the 52kg weight class. He was a vice...
1. Olympic Weightlifting Saga (Stockholm, Sweden) Back in the old days, Stockholm hosted Olympic Weightlifting World Championships three times – in 1953, 1958 and 1963. Ironically, the years are a perfect match to the...