Now and Then (1972-2016): Russian Coaches
Are you ready to celebrate the 44th Anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series? Come on, party poopers, time to mark on your calendar the special month of September! Here is a quick look of...
Are you ready to celebrate the 44th Anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series? Come on, party poopers, time to mark on your calendar the special month of September! Here is a quick look of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Blast from the past, as they say… I am a junior in my school in Moscow. Lifting in the featherweight class (60 kg /132 lbs) at the time. Seems like yesterday and 300 years...
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!...