But apart from his immense track record in wrestling, Aleksandr Karelin is all the more famous for the dreaded “Karelin lift”, a wrestling maneuver so unbelievable that many dispelled it as a ...

For those in wrestling, it wasn’t difficult to put Gardner’supset into perspective: it was the biggest in the history of thesport. Karelin was unbeaten in international competition ...

There is no Milo of Croton of squash, no Heracles. There's not even an Alexander Karelin, the Russian wrestler who was a four-time Olympian. Karelin's strength was legendary. Born in the ...

NPR's Michele Kelemen has a report from Podolsk on Russian sports hero Alexander Karelin. This giant of the Greco-Roman wrestling scene is going for his fourth Olympic gold in Sydney next month.

He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win. American Rulon Gardner, left, will go down in wrestling history ...

Ask Alexander Karelin to name his greatest challenge, and he will tell you about the time he outwrestled a refrigerator that weighed nearly twice as much as he did. Clamping a bear hug on the ...

Humans have even less of a chance against Karelin, 32, a super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler who has won gold medals in each of the past three Summer Games. In fact, the Siberian native has ...

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Aleksandr Karelin is considered one of the most dominant Greco-Roman wrestlers in the sport's history. The "Russian Bear” won gold medals three times at the Olympics (1988, 1992, 1996), one ...

U.S. wrestler Rulon Gardner took home the gold in 2000 when he beat Russia’s Aleksandr Karelin, who had been undefeated for 13 years.