Good Old News From Cat Prince Edward
Prince Edward has nothing to do with the Prince Edward Island province in Canada. Prince Edward is a big friend of our kitties Beatrice and Daphne. He is a really cool cat and, very...
Category: Sports History
1979
Blast from the past, as they say… I am a junior in my school in Moscow. Lifting in the featherweight class (60 kg /132 lbs) at the time. Seems like yesterday and 300 years...
What Happens In Russia Stays In Russia: Power Play
Putin is Russia. No Putin. No Russia. V. Volodin, Chief of Staff of Russian President The quote by the ex-chief of stuff of Putin’s administration definitely made Russian President happy. So does his 80...
Norbert Schemansky: Olympic Honors
Norbert Schemansky is no longer with us. He died last night. He is no longer with us and he will always be with us. There are videos, photos, stories told by those who knew...
Norbert “Norb” Schemansky (1924-2016)
Very sad news came from Michigan. Legendary Olympic weightlifter and one of the greatest U.S. Olympians, Norbert “Norb” Schemansky died at 92. He won medals at four Summer Olympics in London 1948 and in...
What Happens in Russia Stays in Russia: On the Cutting Edge
Winning the Olympics At Any Cost Is a Must Everybody talks about doping and cheating in sports now. It’s a hot issue for the media, for sports officials, for athletes… For everybody. It’s not...
Marchuk
Vladimir Marchuk is mostly known as the first Olympic weightlifter who cleaned-and-jerked 260KG in 1982. Leonid Taranenko certainly clean-and-jerked 266KG at the Samboy Chips Cup in 1988 and even claimed that he was...
Batishchev
There is something futuristic in this photo from the 1960s. The way the characters are lined up. The way they act. It’s a Star Track of Olympic weightlifting. People no longer watch weightlifting like...
What Happens In Russia Stays In Russia. Not Always.
What Happens in Russia Stays in Russia… All of a sudden everybody became doping experts. The mystery behind all phenomenal records and titles and championships has been revealed. It’s all about the dope, man!...
“There Is Much More To Weightlifting Than Only Doping”
Well said. Ironically, the story repeats itself. Should the whole nation or the whole Olympic discipline in sports be punished for wrongdoings of selected individuals? Here is the whole article. There is much more...
