Memorable Moment by Jim Schmitz
I didn’t have just one memorable moment, I had several. That’s the reason why I attend the World Championships every year. My first memorable moment was when I saw this lifter from Australia [...]
28 years old Katie Uhlaender (USA), a two-time Olympian and two-time World Cup champion won the women’s skeleton race at the World Championships in Lake Placid (USA) this weekend. Uhlaender, of Breckenridge, Colorado, is not just a star of winter. She has to dominate at a high class level in two different sports at a […]
12,162,110… this figure is actually two million more than Hungary’s total population. But that is just how many clicks the Youtube video of the Weightlifting Accident of Hungarian János Baranyai at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has at the moment. [...]
The path to glory for Suhail al Kulaibi, Oman’s first weightlifter to win gold at the Arab Games in Doha in December 2011 has not been easy. The daily walk of nearly 10km to reach the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex gymnasium for training from his house in Muscat [...]
Moment of the Year by Mohammad Reza Akhoundi
The most memorable moment of 2011 for me as a journalist was when Behdad Salimi set new world record in snatch, and I had to write this great moment with my shaking hands in order to send it to the Iranian media outlets. [...]