Sports: Varazdat Lalayan named World junior champion

Emil Lazarian 2019
Panorama, Armenia
June 8 2019
Sport 11:45 08/06/2019 Armenia

Member of the Armenian junior weightlifting team Varazdat Lalayan became world champion at the Junior World Championships 2019 in Fiji. The Armenian athlete registered a total of 419kg (192+227) result, claiming the gold medal. 

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