The Soviet Union, led by 286-pound Aleksandr...
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The Soviet Union, led by 286-pound Aleksandr Karelin, won its eighth consecutive World Cup of Greco Roman Wreslting championship by defeating Cuba and the United States in Albany, N.Y.
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