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    Emil Lazarian
  • 7 years ago
    • Categories: 2019

Sports: Olympic champion Khadzhimurat Gatsalov to represent Armenian team

News.am, Armenia

Olympic champion of 2004, five-time world champion and three-time European champion, a former member of the Russian freestyle wrestling team Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, expressed a desire to act under the Armenian flag, the official website of UWW reported. 

“Within the last few weeks, Gatsalov began the transfer process and has aspirations of competing in an Armenian singlet at the 2019 World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, which take place in mid-September,” the source added.

Gatsalov performs in the weight category of 97 kg, in which Russia is represented by the Olympic champion of 2016, three-time world and European champion, 22-year-old Abdulrashid Sadulayev.

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