Posts and episodes from Yesterday’s Sports podcast.
Weightlifting at the 1972 Olympics occurred in Munich, Germany, from August 27 to Sept.6. In 1969, the International Weightlifting Federation added two new weight classes: flyweight (52 kg), bantamweight (56 kg), featherweight (60 kg), lightweight (67.5 kg), middleweight (75 kg), light heavyweight (82.5 kg), middle heavyweight (90 kg), heavyweight (110 kg), and Superheavyweight (over 110 … Read more
The 1968 Olympics were held in Mexico City in October. The Weightlifting was held from October 17th to October 21st. Some call these Olympic Games the Autumn Olympics due to its later than usual start. The reason for the late start was to avoid Mexico’s rainy season. The late start turned out to be a … Read more
With baseball season in full swing, I thought I’d take a break from my usual topics of weightlifting and football and talk about a baseball team that sometimes gets overlooked. The 1968 Detroit Tigers don’t seem to get talked about as often as some other great teams in MLB history. Perhaps it’s because they didn’t … Read more
Here’s a quick look at some of the accomplishments of four great weightlifters from yesteryear. For more information on these weightlifters, please listen to the podcast with my special guest, Dr. Conor Hefernan, on No Nonsense, Old School Weightlifting History. You can also listen to the podcast on Yesterday’s Sports. Paul Anderson USA Paul Anderson … Read more
When I first started competing in Olympic Weightlifting in 1981, I wanted to learn about the sport’s history and the men who made it great. I read all the lifting magazines I could find, and one of the first lifters I read about was John Davis. Davis’ weightlifting career spanned from 1937 to 1956, and … Read more