Newcastle United's £890,000 signing from Dinamo Tbilisi. Vakhtang Salia. made a goalscoring return in a behind closed doors friendly at Benton. The Magpies' Under-21 side took on Northern Ireland ...

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Georgian Vakht’ang Blagidze, who took up wresting in 1968, was the world’s top Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler in the late 1970s and early 80s. Blagidze won Olympic gold in 1980, was the World Champion ...

In the absence of Anatoly Starostin, who tested positive for doping in 1986, Vaho Iagorashvili rose to be the top Soviet modern pentathlete at the end of 1980s. Like many other Soviet athletes, whose ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NewcastleWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Vakhtang Salia marked his return from a ...