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  • Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

    YEREVAN (Combined Sources)--25 of Armenia's best athletes will be in Beijing to compete for the 29th Summer Olympic Games. The first Armenian Olympic delegation left for Beijing On Thursday to compete in this year's Olympic Games in China.

    The delegation consists of judoists and riflemen, along with their coaches. The other Olympic delegations will leave for Beijing on August 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7.

    The Armenian Olympic delegation is headed by the President of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia Gagik Tsarukyan. The chief commissioner is the Vice-President of the Olympic Committee Derenik Gabrielyan.

    The delegation also includes the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee Armen Grigoryan, heads of different sports agencies, doctors and journalists.

    Triple Olympic Champion Albert Azaryan will carry the Armenian flag at the opening ceremony.

    The 25 athletes will be competing in eight different categories.
    Weightlifting:Hripsime Khurshudyan, Tigran Martirosyan, Gevorg Davtyan, Ara Khachatryan, Tigran V. Martirosyan and Edgar Georgyan.

    Boxing: Hovhanes Danielyan, Hrachik Javakhyan, Edward Hambartsumyan, Andranik Hakobyan.

    Free-style wrestling: Martin Berberyan, Suren Markosyan, Harutyun Yenokyan.
    Greco-Roman style wrestling: Roman Amoyan, Karen Mnatsakanyan, Arman Adikyan, Arsen Julfalakyan, Denis Forov, Yuri Patrikeev.

    Judo: Hovhannes Davtyan, Armen Nazaryan.

    Ahletics: Melik Janoyan (archer), Ani Khachikyan (runner).

    Swimming: Mikhael Koloyan.

    Shooting: Norayr Bakhtamyan

    A number of Armenian-born athletes will be competing at Beijing Olympic Games as representatives of other countries. Armen Nazarian, a Greco-Roman wrestler, will be representing Bulgaria. Nazarian is the only Olympic champion of independent Armenia, winning the title in 1996 Games. He received Bulgarian citizenship in 2000 winning another gold medal for Bulgaria. He won a silver medal in the 2004 Games. Weightlifter Artyom Shaloyan will represent Germany. Varderes Samurgashev, also a Greco-Roman style wrestler, will represent Russia. He is a Europe and world champion. Boxer David Hayrapetian is also on the Russian team. Another Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian is on the Swedish team. Ethnic Armenian athletes are also competing in the Dutch, French, and American Teams.
    Positive vibes, positive taught

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    Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

    Nice

    Kristian Sarkies is half Armenian and is on the Australian football team
    Last edited by Ari; 08-02-2008, 08:52 AM.

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      Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

      Lets see how well the Armenians will do.

      I'm intrested in the boxing competition.
      Positive vibes, positive taught

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        Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

        oshin sahakian number 12 for iran in the basketball most like has armo in him with the surname sahakian

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          Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

          alot of people have mentioned it


          matirosyan just won bronze in weightlifting and 2 azeri punks got 5th and 8th or something

          medal count is at 2 bronze

          Last edited by Ari; 08-12-2008, 05:51 AM.

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            Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

            pic of roman amoyan with his bronze medal in the greco roman wrestling




            well done boys!!!

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              Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

              Why Armenia is the best nation at the olympics.

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              Speaking of India, Armenia and those Herculean Australians
              11:27 AM, August 12, 2008

              Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra's mother, Babli, left, and father, A.S.Bindra, celebrate their son's Olympic gold medal on Monday.

              Even though Medals Per Capita trumps the fallacy of the standard Medals Table (as seen on the right-hand side of this page) and rightfully exalts smaller countries as a rule, let us take this opportunity to applaud India.

              This global colossus just harvested the first individual gold medal in its Olympic history when Abhinav Bindra won the 10-meter air rifle event, and while MPC certainly tilts toward the Lilliputians in exquisite fairness, that doesn't preclude some sympathy for a giant.

              MPC fully realizes that India, working with a staggering population of 1,147,995,898 -- one of only two three-comma populations in the world -- has an unforgiving road in the MPC standings, especially for a country that has never bothered with the Olympic oomph of China, the other billion-plus population.

              India finished 75th of the 75 countries that won medals at Athens 2004, and now stands 46th of the 46 countries that have won medals so far in Beijing.

              Still, it's a giddy 46th at the moment, so let's say "hooray."

              At the other extreme, the gumdrop nation of Armenia won zero medals in 2004, thus finishing in a 127-way tie behind even India. Well, let's applaud Armenia, which just grabbed two bronzes and ascended from below the charts all the way to No. 1 in the Tuesday MPC standings. Which, as usual, beat the mulch out of the paltry and inexcusably lazy Medals Table used in the Olympics.

              The Medals Table had the United States first at 22 and then China at 20, as if culling 22 medals from 303,824,646 citizens or 20 from 1,330,044,605 constituted some sort of big whoop-dee-doo.

              After Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan's bronze in the men's 62-69kg weightlifting, and Roman Amoyan's bronze in the men's under-55kg Greco-Roman wrestling, Armenia had two medals among merely 2,968,586 citizens, or one for every 1,484,293 Armenians.

              That surpassed even the Herculean Australians, who form arguably the world's most fibrous athletic nation, and already have pared their MPC rating to 2,060,086, despite having only 20,600,856 citizens, with the paring surely to persist. It also made the Armenians possibly a recurring threat to both the defending runners-up Australians and the defending champions the Bahamians (who tend to catch up when track and field begin).

              With a nod to another former Soviet republic, the sudden No. 4 Azerbaijan, and to Koreans both North and South, here is the Medals Per Capita top 10:

              1. Armenia (2) - 1,484,293

              2. Australia (10) - 2,060,086
              3. Slovakia (2) - 2,622,375
              4. Azerbaijan (3) - 2,725,905
              5. Finland (2) - 2,727,704
              6. North Korea (7) - 3,354,156
              7. South Korea (12) - 4,102,737
              8. Austria (2) - 4,102,767
              9. The Netherlands (4) - 4,161,328
              10. Croatia (1) - 4,491,543

              (Some select bottom-dwellers):

              30. United States (22) - 14,467,840
              40. China (20) - 66,502,230
              46. India (1) - 1,147,995,898

              From http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olym...ng-of-ind.html
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                Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

                That's awesome...I hope we win at least one more medal. Are there any remaining events where this could happen?

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                  Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

                  Originally posted by crusader1492 View Post
                  That's awesome...I hope we win at least one more medal. Are there any remaining events where this could happen?
                  5 more chances at weightlifting (4 men, 1 woman).

                  7 more chances at wrestling.
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                    Re: Armenian Sends 25 of its Best to Beijing Olympics

                    im sure we can get one gold with all those events coming up


                    why isnt there many armenian girls? would have thought there would be girl boxers or weightlifters
                    Last edited by Ari; 08-12-2008, 04:57 PM.

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