The historic battle for Atlanta Weightlifting gold | Olympic History

In this part of our look at the official film of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics we follow the incredible story from the men's weightlifting event as the historic competition between Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu and Greece's Valerios Leonidis leads to an amazing final where world records continued to be...

24 min - Sport - Olympics

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