Lift Up: What’s Next
With the Summer Olympics in Rio and the “dopingate” scandals, we’ve received many comments and requests about the Lift Up project. For those who are new to the project, Lift Up is an online...
With the Summer Olympics in Rio and the “dopingate” scandals, we’ve received many comments and requests about the Lift Up project. For those who are new to the project, Lift Up is an online...
The upcoming semifinal Canada vs. Russia brings back good hockey memories about the 1972 Summit Series. 44 years ago, the Canada vs. USSR 8-games series triggered a new development in the world hockey and...
Putin is Russia. No Putin. No Russia. V. Volodin, Chief of Staff of Russian President The quote by the ex-chief of stuff of Putin’s administration definitely made Russian President happy. So does his 80...
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...
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...
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...