Teamsters In the 1970s
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...
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...
It’s an interesting photo with Sultan Rakhmanov and Alexander Prilepin from the past of the Soviet weightlifting. Sultan Rakhmanov needs no special introduction. Olympic champion in Moscow 1980, he was a superheavyweight lead in...
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 for weightlifting in Rio. Here goes a quick medal count so far. I don’t think Vasily Alexeev would have been smiling.
The weightlifting tournament for 8 Russian Olympic weightlifters banned from competing in Rio took place on Sunday, August 7, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. There were no separate weight classes competitions. All contentenders lifted...
Russian President Putin took the whole situation with doping scandal and participation of Russia in the 2016 Summer Olympics under personal control. Of course, most of the work is to be done for years...
The IWF Executive Board decided today to ban the Russian Weightlifting Federation from recommending/entering/participating with athletes and Technical Official at Rio Olympic Games 2016. The decision is effective as of today… Ouch. It does...
According to Alexander Zhukov, President of Russian Olympic Committee, the Russian weightlifting team in Rio might consist of 3 athletes. This is the smallest team ever to represent the weightlifters of the USSR or...
Recent dramatic events for Team Russia and the 2016 Summer Olympics can be monitored in numbers. July 20, 2016 – the Russian Olympic Committee announced the list of members of national delegation to go...