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1. Goal… or not?  2. "Six graces" from Ukraine, 1964 3. Late night start. Moscow, 1962
4. Men’s eight on the Dnieper river 5. World Record holder Leonid Zhabotinsky 6. The "mistress" of hoops
7. Knockout 8. The last game of the legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin.     Moscow, 1971 9. The leader
10. On top of his game 11. The future champions 12. World Championship match between Great Masters        Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian. Moscow, 1963
13. World and Olympic Champions Liudmila Belousova & Oleg       Protopopov. Olympic games in Grenoble, France. 1968 14. Game lost... 15. My colleague
16. Olympic Champion Vasily Alexeev. Moscow, 1972 17. World and Olympic Champion Irina Press 18. Marathon
19. This boy is Boris Spassky - future Great Master       and World Champion. Leningrad, 1949 20. Olympic Champion Janis Lusis, 1968 21. The ribbon "spirals"
22. World and Olympic Champion Valery Brumel 23. Eternal rivals: Spartak vs. CSKA 24. Dismount
25. Kayaks 26. Performing in numbers 27. World and Olympic Champion Tamara Press, 1963

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