Alexandrovskaya was a figure skater who left her native Russia to compete for Australia in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
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On March 18, 1965, the Russian cosmonaut left his capsule for a 12-minute space walk.
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We look back at Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks who pulled off the “miracle on ice.”
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Inducted into WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Horace Ashenfelter III (1923–2018), steeplechase gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics
by Kirk FoxThe Olympic race was considered to be an early cold war confrontation.
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Sports and politics getting mixed up together: It’s been all over the news lately, and yet it’s been going on forever.
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Former Soviet military officer helped avert a nuclear war during the Cold War era.
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On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all on board.
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14 people were killed in an explosion on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia.