Alym Achichaev
History in Color: Alym Achichaev was one of the best Soviet athletes in the 100kg weight class in the late 1970s. He won the USSR championship in 1976, the USSR Cup in 1975 and...
History in Color: Alym Achichaev was one of the best Soviet athletes in the 100kg weight class in the late 1970s. He won the USSR championship in 1976, the USSR Cup in 1975 and...
Robert “Bob” Bednarski of Team USA was one of the most exciting and fun to watch Olympic weightlifters in the 1960s. He won the World Championship in 1969 and was the silver medalist in...
Our backyard visitors are a little concerned. “Snow storm in Mid March, huh?” Mr. Cardinal is a little worried. These guys don’t watch TV or listen to weather forecast. Some already came back from...
Just a quick snapshot from the porch of the on-going snow storm in our area. We didn’t get that much snow so far but it’s very windy, cold and wet outside. The ocean behind...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… There were two months left before the beginning of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Yury Vlasov broke 6 (six !!!) world records in Podolsk, Russia...
“Oh no!!!!” Mr. Cardinal kept chirping in our backyard this morning. “It’s snow again!” The news about upcoming snow storm caught our little fellas off guard. Not only them, I guess.
The original photo was taken during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Italy. Those were the tallest and the shortest members of the Olympic Team CCCP – Janis Krumins (218 cm, basketball, silver medal)...
The Lift Up: History in Color series features a photo of Suren Bogdasarov and Yury Vlasov discussing training plans back in the 1960s. Bogdasarov (1920-2009) was a prominent lifter of the 1940s and one...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… This time enhanced photo features the Read Army members of Team CCCP Weightlifting training for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. Trofim Lomaking is working on his...
Naim Suleymanogly used to be called by the World media as the “Pocket Hercules“. Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine was 20+ years older than Naim and competed in a lighter weight class. If I...