Weightlifting legend who inspired Arnold Schwarzenegger dies age 85
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 1976 Olympic champion and another of the great Soviet lifters, said: "He was the idol of millions of ...
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