Vovoda on that good Russian dope

3 languages in Latvia is normal to speak.

He also speaks "cat", so a minimum of 4.

Being able to speak in several different languages has nothing to do with intelligence.

Most people in the world except UK & USA speak 2+ languages.

@@alex_tahiti Sure but he speaks 3 at translator level

he was talking english since he was 23, i see him in old documentary. he know english pretty good, not just a little

I think there are still a bunch of armwrestlers not realizing how important for their arm wrestling careers it is to speak English. I for one don't like to hear or read a translation of what an armwrestler has to say, because it is almost never accurately translated; I want to hear it directly from them. Just think about how much you would want to hear an interview with Ongerbaev where what he is saying is translated on the spot (usually a 5 second translation of him speaking for 20 seconds...). For me that is a 2/10. And how much would you want to hear Ongerbaev's thoughts if he spoke English? That would be a 10/10 for me. Also, when they don't speak English they usually aren't asked to do proper interviews. Just look at Ermes how much speaking more English did for him!

He has a KZfaq channel

There are a lot of them on his channel. He is very clever and i can't wait what he brings to the table today.

That's a politician for ya. 😉

He is a health freak also vegan lol

​@@nawzy202think I heard he ate eggs and cheese which is not vegan

Because those things are the most important parts of armwrestling maybe?😉

Yes, he was using gear the same way Denis was using it, but he stopped in time.

@@user-ok6qv2yp4x Nah I don't think Voeovda was even close to what Denis was doing before he almost killed himself, the newer generations are abusing the fk out of PEDs. Denis completely changed his skeleton abusing growth hormones too. You have 16 year old Georgians blown up and lifting insane weights. The level of PED abuse in AW has skyrocketted since early 2000s

He used at one point but never like Denis lol.

​@rgagregre I think the kidney explanation was just the politically correct answer Igor wanted to gave, probably he really got some kidney issue but due to gear and not lifting heavy as they said

@@rgagregre did you literally just say Denis probably wasn’t using that much gear!?!? I have used gear and the amount Denis would have had to take to mutate his body and literally cause himself to have a pretty severe case of acromegaly (skull and bone growth) is simply astronomical. If a normal person jumped right onto a peak Denis cycle they would most likely die in a week.

100% agree

Yeah, Alexey was always about prevailing his health with a very smart approach. We should not forget that he is an Olympic athlete (and multiple gold medalist). When I look at him nothing looks unnatural (even if he takes pancakes) or bloated - its really astonishing. Also his approach of building and keeping longterm gains and muscular/tendon strengths like the "mastodons" (John and Ron) as he called them, is intelligent. Dudes a role model for every younger sportsman/athlete.

He wants to create the picture that he took care of his health and didn't go all the way and still beat John Brzenk. So everyone will say, "Ohh, my good Alexey is geneticly so gifted, he even beated John B. when he was not using his full potential" In reality he trained like a nuts guy! Full of steroids. Don't buy the vegan bogus. If you look at his training videos, you realise everything is very professional. His gym equipement, his sparing partner (David Dadiakan, Artem Morozov and others). Even though he wants to create the impression he didn't have enough table time... His ego was massivly crushed when he got beaten by Tim Breasnan. A guy he wanted to teach a lesson and make an "instruction" videos of different techniques possible to use. Well didn't work out so well :-))) To me this guy has always been a great showman, even though he is Russian and not American.

@@GangdamStyle20 Dude, you are constructing to much in your head. Alexey is a fully realized man, who has achieved everything he wanted in life. He really has no reason to create some imaginary pictures of himself to anyone.

@@GangdamStyle20 Bro, there is no question about his genetics. No doubt he worked for the state that he is in, but if you look at the color of his har and the state of his skin for his age, its not normal and its not work that got him that. He most definitly has elit phisical genetics for a male of his age its obvious in every aspect of things he does.

Guys in insane shape for his age! I concur!

Tommorow. Subtitles take some time

@@voiceofarmwrestling That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the video. Thank you for the effort.

Gracias coach Ray para mí también termino rápida la entrevista

@@voiceofarmwrestling MVP.

He didn't say he wouldn't dope, he said doping is the last thing, after genetics and after doing everything possible to get the most out of your genetics by training. I don't think a guy who spent all his active sporting career in sophisticated doping programs has suddenly decided he doesn't believe in it. But clearly he has disdain for guys just blasting gear and doing vanity max lifts without taking a more scientific approach. If you look into the doping programs he was on and the scientific supervision of those programs, it will make more sense. The reality is, he's got a reputation for being an elitist and thinks he's better than others, more sophisticated, smarter. He's not exactly Mr. Popularity in the sport. Truth is, he is smarter than most of the other guys he looks down on. Levan and Irakli are guys you'd much rather have a beer and a meal with, but no one in that Georgian crew is going to be accused of being the brightest bulbs or the most well educated in sports science. It's just a culture clash. Then there's the tension from Alexey being a BFF of Putin and a made man in Putin's political mafia. It's obvious Levan has no love lost for Russia's imperialist treatment of Georgia.

​@@biscaynediverHe's already using bunch of stuff lol. No lifetime natural would ever achieve this. Also he was caught multiple times in competition, even in the Olympics. He also lied about being drug free. He's a great AW, but I can't really say I respect him.

​@@PahEz Not sure we can say one way or another what he's doing at the moment. Yes, he was deeply ensconced in the Russian doping system. Yes, he was caught dead to rights, and named directly by Grigory Rodchenkov himself. Yes he lied about it. Yes, he took Putin's reward of a seat in the Duma and a handsome financial payoff for his denial and silence. Yes, he got starstruck by Putin and got sucked into his orbit and became a BFF, posting pictures of himself and Vlad, and hung with him at his private b-day party, etc. But I can understand how anyone in the same situation might have done the same. It's not like in Putin's Russia you have much of a choice. Either you defect and get the hell out, you retire and miss out on competing, or you agree to the terms of the system. I can't sit in judgment of his choice.

@@PahEz Care to point out when he was caught in the Olympics? Besides that Meldonium bs, of course. People don't look like he looks at 43, if they are on "a bunch of stuff" from their early 20's. You're more of in a blind denial, than something based on actual facts.

@@someperson1829 The fact that you deny that he's not on roids is enough for me to block you. You are not worth my time so I'm not even gonna bother educating you. I don't know if you are actually this dumb or just trying to annoy me for some reason but either way you are pathetic, honestly. Let me say this one more time, he got caught back then for doping, and nowadays is blasting quite heavy amounts of roids again just like he did back then. These are all facts young man, like it or not. I'm done educating you.

Says one thing but does the opposite

He uses steroids. Just as John does too. If he actually is still vegan, he has to up the dosages to compensate the not so anabolic diet...

Now he curl with one hand 70kg, and in past it was 100kg. See the difference while he is now free?

о каких систематических допинговых программах вы говорите? такие обвинения стребуют доказательств. Пожалуйста покажите их)))

@@_s9301 You're kidding right? You're seriously asking what kind of systematic doping programs I'm talking about? The ones that WADA reported to the IOC and the world and documented in an excruciatingly detailed report. The ones that Yuliya Stepanova and Vitaly Stepanov blew this whistle on and exposed, again in great detail. The ones that caused the entire Russian team to be banned from the Olympics, dozens of athletes banned individually, and those permitted to compete, having to compete as individuals under a neutral banner. The ones that Grigory Rodchenkov revealed in detail, and Brian Fogel documented in the movies Icarus and Icarus: The Aftermath. The ones that caused Putin to have a number of former officials assassinated, and caused Rodchenkov to change identities and take refuge in the U.S. to avoid the same fate.

​@@biscaynediver😂😂😂 When you smoke to much shrooms and see the aliens everywhere. Please tell me next how Voevoda started the war in Ukraine.

he stopped pulling cause he got into bobsleigh, wich was more popular in Russia back then, and win afew Olympic medals with bobsleigh.

Yes...

I would assume 3

Предположу что на трех, латвийский, английский и русский, так как в Латвии живет много русских и эта страна была раньше в ссср, и русский тогда учили в школах.

​@@marki9165 *латышский.

Probably most gifted arm wrestler ever, great athlete generally. His ancestors were known for arm wrestling ability. But he never reached his full potential altough he was on top at 24.

Latvian, Russian, English. In Latvia about 30% are russian speakers. English you learn in school...

That is a hard group of languages to learn. None really help with the other. I can follow alot of Serbian and Slovakian news, but I couldnt track much of what Alexey was saying despite having gone over some Russian and Belarusian.

had an accident when he compete in bobsleigh, hair got loose and got caught in bobsleigh, and decided to cut it.

@sebastianconstantin5176 I understand for other sports short hair is safer, but I would like to see the old long hair Alexy back at the table haha

Mask is being salty for no reason. Hope voevoda humbles matt after John

Он прирожденный политик. Умее лить воды много при етом создаеться впечетление не глупого человека. Но все мы видели как он тренируеться, лишь бы поднять по больше.

Брзенк никогда не поднимал 150 кг , но это не помешало выиграть Воеводу

They should have installed lunk alarm just like planet fitness do 😂

He's from Latvia

Latvia is a former soviet republic, so Russian is wide-spreaded there

His country, Latvia, was a subject colony of imperial Russia. When the Russian army takes over your country, the first three things Russia does is (1) ship a bunch of ethnic Russians there to establish a core ethnic group from which to build control, (2) ban the local language in schools and force everyone to adopt Russian as the official language, and (3) install a puppet government and a goon squad national police force to enforce numbers (1) and (2). It's why the non-Russians in most of the former Soviet states that regained their independence in 1991 have such a dislike of Russia. No doubt you've sense more than a little tension between the Georgians and Russians. It even plays out further. Armenia and Ajerbaijan just had a mini-war in the past few months that culminated this week in Ajerbaijan taking about 1/5 of Armenian territory. Ajerbaijan is allied with Turkey and Armenia is more or less still a Russian puppet state. There is serious bad blood in much of Eastern Europe, particularly involving ethnic Slavs. People have lived with it for generations so don't generally talk about it publicly, but it's not far beneath the surface. Notice Davit Dadikyan and the animosity between him and the Georgians. In the eyes of the Georgians, although he's Armenian, he might as well be Russian. He spends more time there than Armenia. Georgians have fresh bad memories of Russian tanks rolling mercilessly into Georgia, slaughtering their people, installing a Putin puppet ruler, and taking over 1/4 of their country not that many years ago. That's why it doesn't matter who Dadikyan is fighting, Levan will go be in the corner of his opponent. Besides that Dadikyan is a bit of an unfriendly misanthrope, it's clear Levan doesn't like anyone who supports Russian imperialism.

@@bpj1720 People might also want to understand that there many Russians, particularly those in Moscow come from the Rus line of slavs and consider themselves ethnically superior to all surrounding peoples. They believe it's their right and destiny to have an imperial kingdom in which they rule over these "lesser" peoples.

There used to be a thing called USSR, you know.

Матюшенко сносно изъясняется. Артем тоже могет. А вообще да, на таком уровне маст хэв, как говорится.

He's vegetarian and eats eggs and fish but is not a heavy meat eater and doesn't used steroids

@@fastest3712 that makes sense, he still get some animal protein.

​@@fastest3712actually he used steroids but not as much as Denis of course

@@bi__tw1097 used. Not currently

Travis ang oleg zough

​@@azirbesim8844 Oleg has been back for two years already.

@@djo-dji6018 he need to come back on top 10

I don't know his rationale. But maybe he thinks meat sourced from conventional means causes too much suffering to the animals. I'm not vegan/vegetarian but I can respect that point of view

I believe he did a DNA test to see what kind of dieting and training would be optimal for his genetics which is why he decided to go that route. The man wants to live a long and active healthy life and it shows with his understanding about human biology/physiology and exercise mechanics…

@@tappingninja this is true, he said about that a month or two ago

Why are so many people bothered by his vegetarian diet lol

@@tappingninja no…it shows the exact opposite. Name a top level athlete that doesn’t eat meat

Of course, but introduce drug testing to the sport and Voevoda would smoke him. Larrat is a steroid user just like every other top armwrestler. Plus he had stem cells therapy, which is more efficient than steroids.

​@@Irenicus33please turn your brain on. Alex is using the same gear as larratt

@@bi__tw1097 he has stated that he is against the use of steroids and completely off them aftet his bobsleigh journey. So you are saying he is lying yo everyone yeah? The man has told you himself and you have 0 respect and just accuse him of lying.

@@bi__tw1097 larrat is on stem cells also, he is cheating more than even Cyplenkov) Anyways, its their bussiness. But it wouldve been a lot better if they introduce drug testing like UFC did. You will see the growth in the sport, im telling you. UFC has become more entertaining when USADA stepped in. They test athletes not only before the competition but throughout the year

@@Irenicus33 incredible how gullible u are