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History in Color December 23, 1924, Paris France – Olympic champion cover Charles Rigoulot showcases various lifts at the photo session before the Christmas celebration. Legendary French athlete won a gold medal in the...
The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter...
History in Color: April 13, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Igor Kalashnikov of the Moscow Dynamo club is on his way to win the 1st place and set a new...
June 8, 2021 – Legendary weightlifting champion and coach Zygmunt Smalcerz of Poland turned 80! Brilliant Polish flyweight of the 1970s, Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz is definitely one of the living classics of this...
History in Color: October 12, 1955, Munich, Germany– Bantamweight Charles “Chuck” Vinci, a rookie of the U.S. weightlifting team, marks his Wolds debut with a silver medal at the 1955 World and European Championships...
History in Color: December 14, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – Legendary Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1974 USSR Cup and wins gold medals...
History in Color: Paris, France, February 1971 – Soviet heavyweights Vasily Alexeev and Jaan Talts are being caught on camera while having a friendly armwrestling match in front of the Eiffel Tower during a...
Another snapshot from my photo archives. It was made 10 years ago during the 2011 Boston Bruins parade when they won the last Lord Stanley silverware for Boston. Tomorrow, the Bruins will begin to...
History in Color: March 20, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight giant Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia sets up a new world record in clean-and-jerk (240.5kg) in the 110+kg weight class at...
This archival video was made 10 years ago in the South End in Boston after the Boston Briuns won the 2011 Stanley Cup. The construction guys were working across the street from my...
May 14, 2021 – 2x Olympian, 11x champion of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Psenicka Jr. (1931-2015) would have been 90 today. History in Color: The cover photo of the History in Color series presents a color...
History in Color series features a color version of a portrait of Jan Sparre Sr., one of the key athletes and coaches in the early decades of Olympic weightlifting development in the Soviet Union....
Igor Kalashnikov: World Record in Press in Tallinn
12 Jun, 2021
10 Jun, 2021
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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