Just came across this today.
If you were around watching the Munich '72 and Montreal 76 Olympics, he was the rotund Russian guy setting all sorts of world records in weightlifting, getting a lot of face time with American audiences.
He was a big deal back then, at least big enough to make the cover of Sports Illustrated. Also, from what I remember, one of his lifts was part of the "Thrill of Victory/Agony of Defeat" opening segment of Wide World of Sports.
1 posted on
11/25/2011 8:10:45 PM PST by
PallMal
To: PallMal
I think he was the first guy to break 500 pounds
and he did it because his trainers told him he was doing 499 and 1/2 (a weight he knew he had done before) when he really had 501.
2 posted on
11/25/2011 8:13:31 PM PST by
Mr. K
(Physically unable to proofreed <--- oops, see?)
To: PallMal
I would never describe Alekseyev as rotund. He was a massive bull of a man, built like Atlas must have been. None of the “cut” pretty boy build, but more of the look of a man that could eat armies.
3 posted on
11/25/2011 8:13:43 PM PST by
runninglips
(Republicans = 99 lb weaklings of politics. ProgressiveRepublicansInConservativeCostume)
To: PallMal
I remember him well. I was stationed in Germany in the 1972 Olympics and went to the Games. Shortly after I returned to my duty station, Bad Kissingen, we went to the border camp to pull east-west border patrol and the murdering Black September thugs murdered the Israeli athletes. I saw him lift many times on the old ABC Wide World of Sports program. At the time he was the best in the business by a long distance.
4 posted on
11/25/2011 8:14:19 PM PST by
RetiredArmy
(The End of Days draws near. In this time, you should be drawing closer to the Lord Jesus Christ.)
To: PallMal
will they have to embalm him, what with all the steroids he took?
To: PallMal
I remember watching him. Thanks for posting.
6 posted on
11/25/2011 8:14:42 PM PST by
BipolarBob
(Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world and she walks into mine.)
To: PallMal
Anyone ever notice that the strongest men aren't necessarily beach body muscle heads? They just have raw genetic power.
7 posted on
11/25/2011 8:15:51 PM PST by
TSgt
("Romney" means "rino cult" in Kenyan)
To: PallMal
NOOOOOOO!
Not the great Alekseyev!
10 posted on
11/25/2011 8:18:19 PM PST by
dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: PallMal
11 posted on
11/25/2011 8:19:23 PM PST by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: PallMal
Guy was as strong as an ox. Also everyone always said he was a really nice guy too who would never say a bad thing about anyone.
To: PallMal
You can’t fake that. That’s a man to commemorate unlike the dead U.S. Commie journalist on another thread today.
To: PallMal
To: PallMal
I remember watching Alekseyev on tv during the Olympics and always thought the phrase “clean and jerk” sounded unusual and primitive.
27 posted on
11/25/2011 9:04:32 PM PST by
Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
To: PallMal
Yes, I remember him well. Huge as a bear. Sorry to see him go - more likely a victim of Russian health care than steroids. Juicers don’t live to be 69. Sure hate to be one of his pallbearers.
28 posted on
11/25/2011 10:38:28 PM PST by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: PallMal
“died of a long illness”
Whenever I read that, I assume cancer.
Anyway, Russia sure produces some epic weightlifters. Not sure exactly why, but they do.
30 posted on
11/25/2011 11:05:34 PM PST by
Strk321
To: PallMal
37 posted on
11/26/2011 2:50:02 AM PST by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: PallMal
38 posted on
11/26/2011 2:50:18 AM PST by
ADemocratNoMore
(Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
To: PallMal
39 posted on
11/26/2011 2:56:55 AM PST by
wardaddy
(Michelle, Sarah, Perry now Newt over Mitt.....that is how I've seen it and it's where we are)
To: PallMal
48 posted on
11/26/2011 8:20:02 AM PST by
fieldmarshaldj
(Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
To: PallMal
Man, how many Saturday afternoons did I see Alekseyev on Wide World of Sports. He dominated like few people ever have, in any sport, at any time.
}:-)4
49 posted on
11/26/2011 9:32:23 AM PST by
Moose4
("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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