USA vs. USSR: Firm Handshake in 1956
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
Tagged: Yesterday’s Hero
To Yury Vlasov: Mirror of Time
Just a visual tribute to legendary athlete Yury P. Vlasov. He is 82 now. Decades passed since he won the Olympic gold in Rome in 1960. Olympic weightlifting went through numerous ups and downs...
Peter George and John Davis: Two Legends of Weightlifting USA
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright One of the greatest playwrights in...
Andrey V. Menshikov (1945-2017)
It’s very sad to hear that there is no more Andrey Menshikov. He was a great alumnus of my university. He was a great stand-up comedian. He was a great TV producer and director....
Vasily Alexeev and CCCP Strongest in Podolsk (1976)
This photo brought a lot of memories. Many years ago, when I was a young aspiring weightlifter, I cut it from the book about Vasily Alexeev and added it to my weightlifting diaries with...
David Rigert is 70
Last Sunday, David Rigert turned 70! For whatever reason, I sent my congratulations on so many outlets that… I forgot to mention about it on Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. We all have our favorite athletes....
Disadvantage of Being a Teenager
One of the disadvantages of being a teenager is that you can’t really be nostalgic. You can’t see photos or videos of yourself 20+ years ago. You can’t really hit the playback button on your...
Hot in Lima in 1971
It was hot in Lima in 1971. Vasily Alexeev wore a hat while warming up in the outside training before the 1971 World Championship. In the back, the head coach of Team CCCP Alex...
Rusev
Yanko Rusev (b.1958) was a graduate of the Bulgarian weightlifting school that challenged the Soviet team to dominate Olympic weightlifting in the 1970’s and the 1980’s. Overall, while most of the time the Soviets...
Rigert
David Rigert was and remain an absolutely “cult figure” for many generations of the fans of the Iron Game. David Rigert (b. 1947) was one of the leading athletes in a legendary Soviet...
