Valery Borzov’s sprint double at the Munich Olympics 40 years was a stupendous achievement in the backdrop of the Cold War rivalry. September 1, 1972. The Olympics Games, Munich, Germany. In the main ...

Valeriy Borzov, the Soviet athlete who won the sprint double at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and is now an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, told insidethegames in an interview that the ...

A product of science and sport, Valery Borzov was almost robotic in his precision. A long jumper who switched to sprinting at the relatively advanced age of 17, Borzov was a graduate of the Kiev ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian Valery Borzov, gold medalist of the Olympics men's 100meters dash waves to crowd on the podium, Munich 01 September 1972.

I still clearly remember the day when the red-vested racer impinged for the first time on my rather limited 12-year-old's horizons in the English West Country. I had been sent to the newsagent to pick ...