Rafael Chimishkyan: Happy 90th Birthday!
March 19, 2019 – Happy Birthday to legendary Rafael Chimishkyan of Georgia! Today we celebrate his 90th birthday! He is still active, has a great sense of humor and very charismatic. Time didn’t change...
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Boston (USA) Loves the New Biography of Kaarlo Kangasniemi
As hardcore Olympic weightlifting and Iron Game followers know, the new book by Kaarlo Kangasniemi has been published in January 2019. It is called “Idrottens ljus och skuggor” in Swedish or “Urheilun valot ja...
100th Birthday of Legendary Grigory Novak (1919-1980)
March 5, 2019 – Legendary Grigory Novak (1919-1980), the first Soviet World champion and a great athlete and entertainer, would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Everybody knew him. He was a national hero. He...
Yury Chimrov (1956-2019)
Sad news just came from Ukraine… Yury Chimrov died on February 19, 2019. He was 63. RIP, Champion from the Dynamo Donetsk! Yury Chimrov was one of the young and promising Soviet heavyweights of...
Arnold Khalfin Turns 90
Happy 90th Birthday to Arnold Khalfin! Arnold Khalfin (born in 1929) was one of the best Soviet bantam and flyweights of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He competed mostly for the Spartak club...
Legendary Yanko Rusev Turns 60
December 1, 2018 – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Yanko Rusev of Bulgaria celebrates his 60th Birthtday! Congrats to the Champion! Yanko Rusev (born 1958) was a 5x World champion, an Olympic...
George Bush, 41st U.S. President, Dies at 94
Very sad news. George Bush was my first President on my American Presidentiana.
