Training in Tbilisi
On the History in Color cover photo, Rafael Chimishkyan is training in his gym in Tbilisi, Georgia. His coach Pavel Gumashyan is overseeing the lift. Both are preparing for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne....
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Split Style Clean in Munich 1955
Legendary Soviet lifter and coach, Arkady Vorobyev cleans the weight using split style at the 1955 World championship in Munich. Split style was dominant among weightlifters back in those days. It might look odd...
Mr. Common Grackle
Mr. Common Grackle picked a very uncommon place to get food in the backyard. Usually, places with smaller feeders are reserved for smaller birds. Go figure!
They Are Back!
“We are b-a-a-a-c-k!” First, I thought I got confused when I heard this in the chorus line in our backyard opera house this morning. All birds were singing their happy songs and all of...
Early Morning Opera House
Our neighborhood turned into a little opera house this morning. Local birds are singing their songs all over the place. You can hear voices of robins, grackles, sparrows, cardinals, finches, blackbirds… The songs overlap...
Portrait Of A Champion
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
Muscles From Moscow
Cover photo: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck Vinci...
Backyard Olympics
Our backyard squirrels conducted a little Olympics this afternoon. It’s hard to say what discipline they were competing in. Sometimes it looked like freestyle wrestling. Sometimes – sprint runs. Then jumps. Then tree climbing....
No Light Lifting At the World Championships
Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus just finished his attempt at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. This was the first World title won by Shary. He finished first with the 357.5kg total (162.5+195). There...
