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    Emil Lazarian
  • 5 years ago
    • Categories: 2021

Sports: Sofia: Armenian Greco-Roman wrestlers to start campaign for Olympic qualification

News.am, Armenia
May 8 2021

Greco-Roman wrestlers will start competing Sunday at the final qualification tournament, in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Armenia’s Armen Melikyan (60 kg), Karen Aslanyan (67 kg), Artur Shahinyan (87 kg), and Davit Ovasapyan (130 kg) will compete for Olympic spots.

But only the finalists in the Sofia tournament will qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

To note, Armenia’s freestyle wrestlers Arman Andreasyan (74 kg) and Hovhannes Mkhitaryan (86 kg) already have competed in Sofia, but they could not qualify for the Olympics.

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