Weightlifting is sport that emerged in the dawn of human history. A number of ancient texts express respect towards the physical power of people lifting weights. The sport was a part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896. At the Olympic games in 1900..
A number of archeological findings show that boxing emerged in ancient times, thousands of years before Christ. Men boxing in front of spectators are pictured on stone plates, discovered in Egypt and Iraq. These ancient contests are the base of the boxing..
Nearly 1500 years after the last ancient Olympic Games, French nobleman Pierre de Coubertin started working for their revival. The creators of the modern Olympic Games in the end of the 19th century naturally decided that Greece must be the host of the games..
Athletics were part of the Olympic Games since their creation in the antiquity. The ancient Olympics included a sprint race with a length of about 192 meters. The oldest historic data about the winners in this race date back to 776 BC. According to..
Bulgarian weightlifters won two gold medals at the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. 2009 world youth champion and silver medallist among the women at the European tournament in Minsk in 2010, Boyanka Kostova, triumphed at the 53-kg category. Kostova..
