Olympics

[Haykakan]

GAGIK TSARUKYAN: IT WILL BE A GOOD RESULT IF ARMENIA RANKS TOP TEN AT OLYMPICS

PanARMENIAN.Net
02.02.2010 20:53 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 21 Winter Olympics will be held in the Canadian city
of Vancouver from February 12 to 28. Kristine Khachatryan and Sergey
Mikaelyan (skiing), Ani-Matilda Serebryakyan and Arsen Nersisyan
(downhill skiing) will represent Armenia in the Olympic Games. The
delegation will leave for Vancouver on February 5.

On February 2 the President of the National Olympic Committee of
Armenia Gagik Tsarukyan and the newly appointed Minister of Sport
and Youth Affairs Artur Petrosyan met with journalists and sports
delegation at the Olympic Committee of Armenia. "Because of the
climatic conditions winter sports are not so well developed in our
country. And we do not expect gold or silver medals from the Olympics.

It will be a good result if Armenia ranks top ten at Olympics,"
Tsarukyan said. President of the National Olympic Committee on behalf
of the International Olympic Committee, presented certificates to
members of the Armenian delegation.

Personaly i think its lame to have low expectations for the reasons he gives. There are lots of snow covered mountains in hayastan so the weather excuse i dont buy.

[KanadaHye]

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Cool... thanks for the update!

[Haykakan]

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Np Kanadahye, maybe you can attend the event our atheletes participate in. I respect Gagik Tsarukian for helping our country by funding sporting events especially olympic related ones but the excuse he gives here is just lame in my opinion. I cannot think of a single winter olympic sport that cannot be performed in Hayastan at some point during the year. Rubo makes similar excuses for the ffa, like "o i made a good offer but the coach declined to take the job" like sure it was a ok offer for one job but you wanted him to do two jobs#@$%^grrr.

[KanadaHye]

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I think its too late to make arrangements for the trip to the olympics but hopefully the Armenians in Vancouver will be there in support. Might actually see some flags waving on TV.

[Haykakan]

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Vancouver is a pretty city i hear. It is close to some magnificent wilderness and i would love to see it oneday. Have you been there?

[Yedtarts]

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In Armenia we have only Dzaghgatsor as a ski resort where our athletes can be trained, till about 15 days ago it was only raining there as I heard.

[ara87]

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Other countries with no snow at all still enter and do better than we do everytime.

I understand how it could hinder athletes if they don't have the right conditions to practice in, but my god, can we not even win/compete in figure skating or Hockey? Those are indoor sports. No one who does either professionally actually justs waits for a lake to freeze over in the winter. And most people training for the olympics tend to travel elsewhere to train. The chinese couple that won the gold for figure skating, travelled to other countries to practice with various coaches to refine their technique.

Can Armenia not send some skiiers out to other countries like Iran, or Russia to go train at their facilities or possibly find better coaches?

Maybe they could offer incentive for diasporans to represent us by giving them some sort of incentive to compete?

i know we're not exactly a "wealthy" nation, but poorer countries have pulled off much more with much less

[Eddo211]

Re: Olympics: “I feel honored to be on the Armenian team”

World’s biggest stage for Novato skier

Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:04 PM PST


Ani Serebrakian, a 20-year-old from Novato, will be marching in the Opening Ceremonies Friday night at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.

But if you plan on watching them on ABC, you may have to look quickly . . . Serebrakian, an athletic standout at Marin Catholic and now attending USF, is not part of the 216-member U.S. team, but will be in the comparatively tiny four-person ski team from Armenia.

Serebrakian, who earned a reputation for excellence among the top American juniors, could have tried to make the U.S. team, but opted to ski for Armenia. Her parents, Armen and Anita Serebrakian, are Armenian and were born in neighboring Iran.

“I feel honored to be on the Armenian team,” said Serebrakian, who will compete in women’s slalom and giant slalom events Feb. 24 and 26. “I’ve been to Armenia and it really hits home to ski for that country.”

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http://marinscope.com/articles/2010/02/12/novato_advance/news/doc4b7325e12832f272572497.txt

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She is ranked 3 out of 14. Hope she gets on the podium.

[Haykakan]

Re: Olympics: “I feel honored to be on the Armenian team”

[QUOTE=Eddo211;290922]World’s biggest stage for Novato skier

Published: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:04 PM PST


Ani Serebrakian, a 20-year-old from Novato, will be marching in the Opening Ceremonies Friday night at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.

But if you plan on watching them on ABC, you may have to look quickly . . . Serebrakian, an athletic standout at Marin Catholic and now attending USF, is not part of the 216-member U.S. team, but will be in the comparatively tiny four-person ski team from Armenia.

Serebrakian, who earned a reputation for excellence among the top American juniors, could have tried to make the U.S. team, but opted to ski for Armenia. Her parents, Armen and Anita Serebrakian, are Armenian and were born in neighboring Iran.

“I feel honored to be on the Armenian team,” said Serebrakian, who will compete in women’s slalom and giant slalom events Feb. 24 and 26. “I’ve been to Armenia and it really hits home to ski for that country.”

continue....

http://marinscope.com/articles/2010/02/12/novato_advance/news/doc4b7325e12832f272572497.txt

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This is why i stress that people need to go to Hayastan from a young age. It realy does make a difference.

[Ari]

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good story

all the best to her in the competition