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SPORTS DIGEST: FROM SWINDON TO PARIS TO ARMENIA, 26.2 MILES FOR PYUNIC
By Suren Musayelyan
ArmenianNow Reporter
RUNNING
Tim Manook is not a professional runner. But when the 20-year-old
student from Swindon, UK, runs in the (42 kilometer) Paris Marathon on
April 10 he will be running to raise money for the PYUNIC Armenian
Association for Disabled.
The undergraduate at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, says he
hopes `to raise awareness and support of maybe $1,000′ for this
charity by his efforts through Paris’ streets.
Last summer Tim spent two months in Armenia interning in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. He says it was then that he first came into
contact with PYUNIC.
This year PYUNIC () will be celebrating its 15th
anniversary as a registered charity. Over the years PYUNIC has grown
from its original immediate aim of aiding earthquake victims to
providing support for all disabled Armenians.
Since 1989 the charity has organized 20 summer and winter sport camps
attended by more than 2,000 people, with activities including
swimming, sailing, weightlifting, archery, skiing, basketball and
others.
On July 18, 1998 the Government of Armenia gave PYUNIC a 32,000
sq. ft., four-storey building to serve as its center for providing
services and programs. Over the years the building has been vandalized
and materials stolen. There is a need for major reconstruction to the
building.
Manook welcomes all contributions.
His email is: [email protected]
and postal address: 31 Yarmouth Close Toothill, Swindon Wiltshire, SN5
8LL
FOOTBALL
Armenia got its first win in the World Cup 2006 qualifying campaign
with a 2-1 victory over Andorra last Saturday in Yerevan.
But that hard-won victory (Armenia scored the winner only 17 minutes
from time after the Andorrans managed to score an unlikely equalizer
earlier in the second half) was overshadowed by the team’s 0-2 defeat
from the Dutch in Eindhoven on Wednesday.
Both goals were scored by the Dutch in the first half (the first after
only 3 minutes) and it took quite an effort from Armenia to keep their
goal safe in the second half.
(Unlike the full team, Armenia U-21 managed to snatch a point from
their Dutch coevals on Tuesday, holding them to a goalless
draw. Andorra doesn’t have a U-21 team, so Armenia’s juniors didn’t
play on Saturday).
As a result of the two matches Armenia managed to leave the bottom
place in Group 1 and is now sixth (with four points in seven matches)
ahead of Andorra (which also has four points) due to the win in
Yerevan.
Armenia’s next opponent is Macedonia in Yerevan on June 4. Macedonia,
who hosted Armenia last autumn and won 3-0, are immediately above the
Armenian team in the group with five points.
Group 1 current standings are as follows:
TEAM MP PTS
NETHERLANDS 6 16
CZECH REPUBLIC 6 15
ROMANIA 7 13
FINLAND 6 9
MACEDONIA 7 5
ARMENIA 7 4
ANDORRA 7 4
BOXING
Australia’s Vic (Vakhtang) Darchinyan retained his IBF flyweight title
with an eighth-round stoppage of South Africa’s Mzukisi Sikali in
Sydney on Sunday, March 28.
The 29-year-old Darchinyan, making the first defense of the title he
won in December, was ahead on all three of the judges’ scorecards.
It was the Armenian-born fighter’s 23rd straight win and his 18th by
knockout.
After the fight, Darchinyan called out WBA champion Lorenzo Parra. The
Venezuelan is unbeaten in 25 fights (source: BBC Sports).
