CHAMP IN RECOVERY: AVDALYAN EYES RETURN TO WEIGHTLIFTING IN TWO YEARS
By Gayane Abrahamyan

ArmeniaNow
17.10.11 | 14:29

Wrestling World Champion Nazik Avdalyan announced Monday that she
will return to the sport in two years. Avdalyan, who became World
Champion in 2009 and has since been a popular figure of Armenian
sport, was involved in a car accident on April 26 that left her with
a fractured vertebrae and two cracked ribs.

“I still can’t lift even a bucket full of water. But I hope in two
years I will return to sport by all means,” said the sportswoman,
25, who is now studying law at Mkhitar Gosh University.

The champion is also helping to build a sports school for women,
the construction of which is currently underway.

“I believe that it is very important, because there are many girls
who want to become weightlifters, however, they need special, separate
conditions for training, and the school will give that opportunity,”
Avdalyan told ArmeniaNow.

Avdalyan is also preparing for her January wedding, adding that she
doesn’t expect matrimony to interfere with sport.

“My future husband does not mind,” she said. In fact her fiance is
himself a former weightlifter and is now a lawyer.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress