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The American Olympic medallist Lee James, one of his nation’s top weightlifters in the 1970s, has died aged 69.

Weightlifting legend who inspired Arnold Schwarzenegger dies age 85 Saturday, 13 February 2021 Yuri Vlasov, one of the all-time greats of weightlifting who later stood against Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev in the first Presidential election in post-Communist Russia, has died aged 85. The European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow from April 3 to 11 will be dedicated to the memory of Vlasov, an Olympic champion and multiple world record holder for the Soviet Union. David Rigert, the 1...