Happy Birthday to David Rigert!
Legendary David Rigert turns 72 today! Happy Birthday to the Legend!
Legendary David Rigert turns 72 today! Happy Birthday to the Legend!
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...
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...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – On the last day the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, victorious team USA gathered on the stage for celebration (left to right): Front row: Richard...
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...
On February 15, 2019, great champion Joe Dube (USA) turned 75!!! Joe Dube is a World Champion (1969), bronze medalist of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and a champion of the 1967...
History in Color : November 15, 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria – 54-year head coach of Team Bulgaria, Ivan Abadzhiev is holding the IWF Award for the best team of the 1986 World Championships in Sofia....
February 3, 2019 – Legendary Soviet weightlifter and coach Nikolay Shatov would have celebrated his 110th Birthday! The cover photo from the History in Color series features Peter George (USA), Nikolay Shatov (USSR) and...
Good Read For a Good Lift Jan. 26, 2019 – Biography Book by Kaarlo Kangasniemi Is Now Available in the booskstores in Finland and Sweden.