Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

In the Soviet Union, sports were tightly controlled by the government and were used as a form of nationalist propaganda. Many supposedly amateur athletes in the Soviet Union were in fact state ...

Why the decline? Sure, you could accuse the Soviet athletes of doping, though there's no evidence either participated. Still, pure strength is seen as relatively unimportant in a sport that ...

TASS recalls the unique ascent of athletes from the USSR to the highest peak of the planet, Mount Everest. On May 4, 1982 the first acknowledged Soviet expedition climbed a new route on Mount Everest.

to meet with anyone to negotiate until the last minute” the participation of athletes and teams from the former Soviet republics. The book mentions discreet interventions by former members of ...

When Lozansky learned that during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, New York, the Olympic People-for-People Program would be organizing the hosting of Soviet athletes in American ...