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From Bill's souvenir program for the 1978 World Championships in Gettysburg. The sequence was photographed by Bruce Klemens at the 75 Worlds in Moscow. |
| "His deltoids measured about ten inches from back to front and his chest stood out maybe a foot past that. Standing next to him I thought this man could hurt me," Bill says. |
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The weight goes aloft in his only successful exercise of the day, the snatch. |
| The beginning of the end for the Russian Bear. Alexeyev is seen here at the lowest point of the clean during his first attempt in the C&J with 240 kg (529 lbs). |
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Before he could lock the weight in overhead he sustained a career ending injury to his right hip. |
| Backstage, while being attended to by medical staff, he is comforted by American friend and rival Bruce Wilhelm. |
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Another shot of same. |
