Remembering A Great Historical Hockey Rivalry
There is a big game tomorrow at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, huh? Old rivalry, good old memories of a good old hockey. Things are different now. No more CCCP. No more Iron...
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Scoring Goals in 1972 and 2016
Yevgeny Kuznetsov of Team Russia scored a beauty of the goal at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto. It was the 3rd goal of Russian team in the game vs Team North...
The Voice of Olympic Weightlifting
My coach competed in Olympic weightlifting back in the 1950s. The world of Olympic weightlifting was much smaller in those times and everybody knew each other pretty well. It was my coach who was...
The Cat In Russia Watching the Last Minute Of Russia vs Sweden Game
Actually, the original YouTube video was called “Cat Watching Horror Movie” and got over 2,000,000 views. Perhaps, today’s game at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey was a “horror movie” for millions of Russian...
What Happens In Russia Stays In Russia: Power Play
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...
What Happens in Russia Stays in Russia: On the Cutting Edge
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...
Batishchev
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. Not Always.
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!...
Records Dedicated To the Leader
I did not feel any pressure, I just focused on each lift. The first thing I thought when I knew I had won was that I had made our Beloved Leader (Kim Jong Un)...
Day Off in Rio
Day off for weightlifting in Rio. Here goes a quick medal count so far. I don’t think Vasily Alexeev would have been smiling.
