Yuri Vlasov This content is protected Olympic medal record Gold (1960 Rome) HW Silver (1964 Tokyo) HW Four-time Senior World Champion (1959, 1961-1963) Silver Medalist in Senior World Championships (1964) Six-time Consecutive Senior European Champion (1959 - 1964) Set thirty four world records during career AN INCONVENIENT MAN FOR SPORTS What happened to Yuri Vlasov after he told the truth? Interviewed by Mark Vodovozov (1988) Yuri Vlasov is a Merited Master of Sport, an Olympic weightlifting champion and a writer. At a meeting at the Ostankino TV Studio, late in 1986, Vlasov broke the silence about the problems in big-time sports - too much commercialization, drugs. and the cruelty of children's sports. The latter two issues were especially disturbing since they were considered atypical of Soviet athletics. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT ANABOLICS? In the past, no one ever admitted that drugs in weightlifting can help one lift some 20-30 kg more in the snatch and the jerk, while harming one physically and morally. Sport is about strength, fortitude and beauty, not chemicals. Unfortunately, anabolics have been in use for several decades. We cannot blame the use of drugs on a single Olympics, a single world championship or the athletes in a single country. The problem must be dealt with jointly. more at http://www.weightsnet.com/weights/issue/2605 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Vlasov
He's mentioned Kaerlin as his hero as well, both are very good people to be looking up to as an athlete.
Karelin's olympic record in greco is unreal... I don't know if we'll ever see someone like that , ever...
