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[Haykakan]

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Katya Galstyan finished 64th out of 76 in Women's 10km classical.

Sergey Mikayelyan finished 46th out of 92 while Arthur Yeghoyan DNS.

All we have left are the Men's giant slalom on the 19th and the slalom on the 22nd by Arman Serebrakian and the men's 50km freestyle on the 23rd with Sergey Mikayelyan and Arthur Yeghoyan.

[Haykakan]

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ARMENIAN MUSIC TO BE PERFORMED AT SOCHI OLYMPICS

http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/02/11/armenian-music-to-be-performed-at-sochi-olympics/

14:43 11.02.2014

Armenian music, duduk, Olympic Games in Sochi

Sona Hakobyan
Public Radio of Armenia

Armenian music will play at Sochi Olympics. Famous Armenian duduk
player Gevorg Dabaghyan has been invited to participate in the 7th
International Winter Music Festival in Sochi. The event, which takes
place from February 6 to 20, has been organized by renowned Russian
musician Yuri Bashmet.

Gevorg Dabaghyan first played with Bashmet in Italy, where the two
performed a work by Vache Sharafyan. The second meeting took place at
the Moscow Conservatory. The acquaintance has grown into friendship
over the past seven years.

In Sochi the two musicians will play a 15-minute composition based
on the works by Vache Sharafyan and Komitas.

Speaking to Public Radio of Armenia, Gevorg Dabaghyan said he believes
participation in this large-scale event is a good opportunity to cheer
our athletes and present the Armenian music to guests from different
parts of the world.

"The secret of attractiveness of duduk lies in it simplicity and
frankness, it needs no additional decorations," Dabaghyan said. "There
is also Armenian spiritual kindness and honesty in duduk," he added.

The 22nd Winter Olympic Games take place in Sochi, Russia, from
February 7-23.

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OLYMPICS: ASADA DEPARTS FOR ARMENIA TRAINING BASE

Japan Economic Newswire
February 10, 2014 Monday 10:24 AM GMT

SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10

SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 10 - Mao Asada left Sochi on Monday to prepare for
the women's figure skating competition at the Japan team's training
base in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.

"My body is weak, so I want to get back into competitive shape,"
she said a day after Japan finished fifth in the Olympics' first team
figure skating competition.

Asada is expected to train for a week at the base Japan has prepared
in Yerevan before returning to Sochi. The Vancouver Games' silver
medalist was third in the women's short program during the team
competition after she fell on her opening triple axel.

"It was a mental issue," she said. "I want to focus on my performance."

In the singles competition, she will face competition from not only
her longtime rival Kim Yu Na of South Korea, but also from Russian
Julia Lipnitskaia. In the team competition, the dynamic 15-year-old
Lipnitskaia was first in both the women's short program and the
free skate.

"My target," Asada said, "is to execute a satisfactory performance
in my final Olympic Games."

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/02/271064.html

[Haykakan]

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Great display of art and physical skill in the ice skating couples event. The Russian pair scored yet again the highest score ever awarded for their event (amazing) with the Germans taking silver. The legendary Shawn White missed the podium finishing 4th with a Russian kid representing Switzerland taking the gold and a 15 year old Japanese kid taking the silver in the half-pipe.

[Haykakan]

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Sergey Mikayelyan finished 46th out of 68 in the Men's 30km skiathlon while Arthur Yeghoyan finished 63rd in the same competition.

Mikayelyan did poorly in the classical, finishing 51st, but did well in the freestyle, finishing 39th.
Yeghoyan was consistent finishing 63rd in both classical and freestyle.

[UrMistake]

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true story .the man is legent ...my father remembers it ..also my uncle was there after the incident he was diver ...

[Mher]

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Good find Mher. I did not know that story.

thank you, same here
After I read the story from the Armenian blog I though no way all of this is true so I had to search it to confirm the information on other sites

[Haykakan]

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Good find Mher. I did not know that story.

[Mher]

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Amazing story


True Story of a Real life Superhero: Shavarsh Karapetyan

http://peopleofar.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/true-story-of-a-real-life-superhero-shavarsh-karapetyan/

Flameless torch puts spotlight on heroic champion

http://rt.com/news/olympic-torch-relay-moscow-854/

[Haykakan]

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Well they showed it all live today. Ice skating was fun to watch. The USA did great in pairs but Russia won the team event. That 15 year old girl is just amazing. Ok now maybe ill go fishing.