Sports: Armenia’s Mikayel Mikayelyan performs well at Finland-hosted tournament

PanArmenian, Armenia

Nov 19 2018

– 18:52 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – 19-year-old Armenian skier Mikayel Mikayelyan was the first to cross the finish line among other U20 athletes in the men’s 10 km event of a cross-country tournament currently underway in Saariselkä, Finland.

Among all the 45 participants from eight countries, Mikayelyan came in the fifth after completing the race and collecting 79.12 points.

Meanwhile, Tadevos Poghosyan and Arman Matinyan, also representing Armenia, took the 12th and 29th positions, respectively.

Armenia’s Katya Galstyan from the women’s team came in the 23rd.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS