Weightlifting Mourns Vasily Alexeev
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According to the International Weightlifting Federation web site www.IWF.net, two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-times world champion, Vasily Alexeev, died in early November. Certainly the one lifter most Americans who came of age during the days of ABC's Wide World of Sports remember, Alexeev, like Mohammed Ali, grew in reputation to be larger than the sport itself.