Unified team swimmer Alexander Popov waves to crowd on the podium after he won the gold medal in the Men's 100m freestyle final, Barcelona, 28 July 1992. In the 1996 Olympic games, he kept his title, ...

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Public domain; Getty Images; The Popov Central Museum of Communications) Alexander Popov is widely known in Russia as a pioneering radio inventor. Paradoxically enough, he ...

On May 7, 1895 — 126 years ago — Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov publicized what many consider to be the first-ever radio receiver. The day, commemorated by some as Radio Day, changed ...

We take a look at the career of Russian sprint legend Alexander Popov, whose combination of skill and work ethic carried him to greatness. He knew how to play the all-important mental game of ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 21.64 World record set by Alexander Popov over 50m freestyle. The Russian Sprint Tsar, two historic doubles and four Olympic 50-100m freestyle crowns in the ...