Category: Sports History

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February 12, 2023

Super Bowl LVII: KC or not KC

With less than an hour to go, the predictions battles are becoming more heated. I got stuck with a Hamlet level question here – KC or not KC?

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February 11, 2023

Candidates to 1982 Team CCCP in Podolsk

History in Color: With seven days left to the opening of the 1982 World Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, candidates to the national Team USSR gathered for a group shot in the training camp in...

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February 10, 2023

Ireneusz Palinski (Poland) Wins the Middle Heavyweight Class in Paris

History in Color: June 1964, Paris, France – Legendary middle heavyweight, 32-year old Ireneusz Palinski of Poland completes a clean-and-jerk (185kg) at the invitational international tournament dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the French...

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February 7, 2023

Club 500: Vladimir Golovanov (USSR)

History in Color: July 18, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR –25-year old middle heavyweight Vladimir Golovanov of the Army Club, Khabarovsk, Russia wins the 1964 USSR Championship title in the 90kg class with the world...

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February 5, 2023

John Terry (USA): The First Black American Weightlifter to Represent the U.S. at the Summer Olympics

The cover photo of the History in Color series features a color version of a portrait of legendary John Terry who became the first Black American weightlifter to compete for the United States at...

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January 22, 2023

Olympics, Weightlifting and Stamps: Tribute from the Maldives

I guess weightlifting is popular at the Maldives. Previously, we looked at the stamps from the Maldives celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Olympic Games (1896-1996). Now it’s a tribute to legendary Naim Suleymanoglu...

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January 21, 2023

Remembering Petr Pavlasek (1947-2023)

January 3, 2023 – One of the best super heavyweights of the 1970s, Petr Pavlasek of Czech Republic passed away in Tyn nad Vltavou at 75. A 2x Olympian, Petr Pavlasek competed for for...

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December 30, 2022

Young Vaclav Psenicka Jr: Weightlifting Promise of Czechoslovakia

The cover photo of the History in Color series features my color version of a portrait of one of the most distinguished Czech weightlifters of the 20th century, a “poster boy” of Czechoslovakian weightlifting...