In a new age of great-power politics, the Western Balkans might seem like an afterthought. But given the region's centrality to three larger geopolitical trends, it could well play an outsize role in ...

He was upset at the 1960 Olympic Games but still took the bronze medal. Four years later, in Tokyo, he cleared the same height as his rival Valery Brumel of the USSR, but was relegated to second place ...

the best Ter-Ovanesyan was able to manage was 26 ft. 1 in. The Russian shook his head, walked over to talk to High Jumper Valery Brumel. Somehow that seemed to give him strength, and he stalked ...

Lots, it seems. Last week at the New York Athletic Club meet in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden, the U.S.S.R.’s handsome High Jumper Valery Brumel, 20, was out to avenge a minor blot on his ...

Fosbury went in search of the 2.29 to beat the world record held by the Soviet Valeriy Brumel with 2.28, but he didn’t succeed. Not only did Fosbury not achieve the record with the innovative ...