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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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… 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!...
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...
As a sports historian, I have a special passion for two sports – Olympic weightlifting and hockey. In this regard, the collage cover for this article covers it all, Doug Hepburn is my type...
All three characters on the photo were team members of the Soviet national team in the late 1970s. Left to right – Alexander Voronin, Victor Okorokov and Nikolay Kolesnikov. Right before the 1980 Summer...
Something like this. Regardless of the current headaches and problems, always remember and respect the past. We are all one day will be history. No reason to change the pictures on the wall and set...