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[MosJan]

BEIJING 2008





Opening Ceremony 08 08 08

http://en.beijing2008.cn/schedule

[MosJan]

TWO ARMENIAN JUDOKAS IN BEIJING 2008

[05:30 pm] 29 July, 2008
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The Judo International Federation has declared the list of its participants in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Armenia will be represented by 2 sportsmen – Hovhannes Davtyan (60kg) and Armen Nazaryan (66kg).

32 judokas are to struggle for medals in the 60kg category. The favourite of this category is considered Ruben Houkes (Netherlands), who won gold medals in the World Judo Championship 2007. For the past years Ruben Houkes has won a number of medals in international championships. For the 29-year-old judoka these might be the last Olympic Games. Another aspirant to the first standing is Nestor Khergiani (Georgia), who won silver medals in the Olympic Games of 2004 and World Judo Championship 2007.

Four years ago Armen Nazaryan (66kg) participated in the Olympic Games of 2004 under 60kg bodyweight category. But since according to the Beijing 2008 Olympic rules a country can be represented with only one judoka from each category Armen Nazaryan had to change his weight category. He is considered a favourite, as he is included in the list of 5 best judokas in the world.

In the World Judo Championship 2007 Armen got the fifth standing under 66kg bodyweight category.

By the way there are 4 medals raffled in Judo – 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze.

[MosJan]

TWO ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTERS TO PARTICIPATE IN OLYMPIC GAMES

[03:32 pm] 22 July, 2008
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In the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Armenians set their hopes on weightlifter Gevorg Davtian (77kg), who is the only Armenian double European champion that won a silver medal in the World Championship 2007.

In the World Championship 2007 Gevorg was about to become a champion but in the end he yielded to Ivan Stoitsov with 1 kg and won the silver medal.

However, Ivan Stoitsov, as well as all the other Bulgarian weightlifters, are banned to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as Bulgaria's Weightlifting Federation has withdrawn its team from this summer's Beijing Olympics since 11 lifters failed drugs tests.

In the World Championship 2007 Davtian lifted 362 kg. The same weight was lifted by Oleg Perepechinov in the World Championship 2008, in which Davtian did not take part in order to save energy for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Another aspirant to Olympic medals is Ara Khachatrian (77kg), who won silver medals in the past 2 European Championships and got the 3rd standing in the World Championship 2006.

[MosJan]

ARMENIA SETS LAVISH REWARDS FOR OLYMPIC WINNERS


Armenian athletes winning gold medals in the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing will each be rewarded with more than $760,000 in cash and other bonuses, Minister for Sport and Youth Affairs Armen Grigorian confirmed on Wednesday. Grigorian said the bulk of the reward, $700,000, would be provided by Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman heading Armenia’s National Olympic Committee (NOCA). The remaining 20 million drams ($66,000) would be paid from the state budget, he said. Tsarukian promised the bounty shortly after taking over the NOCA following Armenia’s worst-ever performance in the last Olympic Games held in Athens in 2004. He made clear that the payment would be made in cash and in the form of a luxury apartment in one of his residential buildings in central Yerevan. None of the 18 Armenian athletes won any medals at the Athens Olympics. The Tsarukian-led NOCA has since spent heavily on the reconstruction of the country’s outdated sport facilities in the hope of ensuring a more respectable performance at the Beijing games. Armenia will be represented there by 25 athletes vying for medals in seven sports, including boxing, wrestling and weightlifting. Some of them have done well in recent European and world championships and are expected to be major contenders at Beijing. “We have European champions and winners of world championship medals,” Grigorian told RFE/RL. “So we have serious ambitions to win medals at the 2008 Olympic Games.” An Armenian government delegation led by President Serzh Sarkisian will fly to China to attend the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. (Photolur photo: Gagik Tsarukian.)
* By Astghik Bedevian

[Zartonk]

You so beat me to this...

[vava]

Did anyone see the Armenian team at the opening ceremonies? I didn't, since this year they're not in alphabetical order, and I wasn't about to watch the whole thing...

[Zartonk]

Damn NBC!!!!!!!!

They cut us into commercial for the second time in a row!



(Petition coming soon.)

[Yervant1]

Did anyone see the Armenian team at the opening ceremonies? I didn't, since this year they're not in alphabetical order, and I wasn't about to watch the whole thing...

Yes I did see it on French CBC because the English CBC went to commercial right when it came to Armenia.
It was done in alphabetical order in Chineese alphabet.

[vava]

Yes I did see it on French CBC because the English CBC went to commercial right when it came to Armenia.
It was done in alphabetical order in Chineese alphabet.

Really? I thought it depended on the number of Chinese characters required to write the name of the country... but I think it makes more sense your way. So how many athletes does the Armenian team have? What were the uniforms like? Pics anyone??

While we're at it, anyone have a list of the Armenian athletes and their respective events?

Edited by vava, 08 August 2008 - 10:06 PM.

[DominO]

Really? I thought it depended on the number of Chinese characters required to write the name of the country... but I think it makes more sense your way. So how many athletes does the Armenian team have? What were the uniforms like? Pics anyone??

While we're at it, anyone have a list of the Armenian athletes and their respective events?

Check Radio Canada site, they have the opening entire movie. It's there.

[Zartonk]

25 athletes. Go team!

[Yervant1]

ARTIST WINS GOLD MEDAL FOR LEBANON IN BEJJING OLYMPIC GAMES
By Mohammed Zaatari

Daily Star
http://www.dailystar...rticle_id=94889
Aug 8 2008
Lebanon

BEIRUT: A painting by Lebanese artist Lina Kilikian won the gold
medal at an international exhibition of art in China preceding and
accompanying the 2008 Olympic Games opening on Friday in Beijing. For
the exhibit entitled Colors and the Olympics, in which hundreds of
sculptures and paintings by about 700 artists from 81 countries
around the world were competing, Kilikian submitted three works,
one of which won.

Kilikian will travel to the Chinese capital on Saturday to receive the
gold medal and an Olympic torch as an award for her winning painting
called "The Terrestrial Globe During the 21st Century."

Kilikian said she produced the painting in August 2006 - just after
the war with Israel - in Mount Lebanon's Bolonia, amid hundreds of
families fleeing from the bombing.

"I was holding a blank paper and some painting pens, so I drew what
I was feeling at that moment. I drew the way wars can change the
landmarks of the terrestrial globe and hurt human beings along with the
pollution and the catastrophes of the nature," she told The Daily Star.

"This painting reflects the suffering of the earth and human
beings. Yet, it leaves some white spaces for hope. That is how I
was seeing the globe at that moment. I am proud of this award, and
I offer it to my country, Lebanon, which has started paving the way
to stability and prosperity," she added.

Kilikian is a multi-faceted artist who is interested in abstract
and religious art, and in the creation of cities. With her numerous
paintings and murals, she has participated in various exhibitions in
Lebanon and around the world.

Kilikian also serves as president of the Lebanon chapter of the
Association of Women Innovating in the Mediterranean.

[Arpa]

Olympic Moment.
Yes, I saw when the Armenian team was cut short, yet, not short enough for the commentator to pronounce the A R M E N I A N word. Then at the azboobjan team the same commentator clipped saying that “they had ‘quixotically’ tendered for the next event“. You mean after Ankara? Get in line.!!! You mean After Yerevan??!!
Here is that Olympic Moment.
In 1976 I was in Montreal. Of all the venues that were booked closed, we chose to go to the Volleyball match between Egypt and …? The Egyptians, as tall as they are, they are good volleyball players. As we were in line for tickets, an announcement came on saying that the Egyptian team had withdrawn and gone home. It was due to a ridiculous Arab-Israeli garbage. Two guys ahead of me who seemed to be Palestinians said” kous oum masr!!”(f …the Egyptians).
We proceeded, bought tickets for an alternate that happened to be an exciting volleyball (ladie’s match between Cuba and the US. (Cuba won, btw).
My host in Montreal was so intimidated by the whole thing that he had not even gone close to the Olympic Village. I egged him. If nothing else we could at least see what the “village” looked like. He took us there. There were many sights, not the least of which, I heard some wrestler apes speak “furkish”.
Most venues were booked tight. The only one open was soccer. We entered. We got prime seats. How much more exciting can it be? It was a semi-final between Germany and Russia.
My host in Montreal would never forget that moment.

[Harut]

http://results.beiji...O/NOC/ARM.shtml

anthem words by "Miqayél Ghazari"...

[Harut]

Check Radio Canada site, they have the opening entire movie. It's there.

do you have the link?

thanks

[nairi]

Don't forget to watch the Dutch women's waterpolo team. There's a nice surprise in there. August 11 is the first time they play.

Also, does anyone know if there are other Armenians playing for other countries?

Anyway, thank god for Dutch public TV and BBC.. No commercial breaks at all.

Btw, I thought the countries came in order of how many strokes it takes to draw the first character of the name of the country.

[Harut]

Men's Middle (75kg) Round of 32
Sat Aug 9

HAKOBYAN Andranik wins SARAKU Ahmed

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Men -60 kg Preliminary
Sat Aug 9
DAVTYAN Hovhannes Armenia wins PIKER Yosmani Cuba
0100 / 0010 3 (P29)

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Men -60 kg Preliminary
Sat Aug 9
KIM Kyong Jin DPR Korea wins DAVTYAN Hovhannes Armenia
0022 / 0000 2 (KTA)

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Shooting 10 m air pistol
Norayr Bakhtamyan
Total: 580
Rank: 12


http://en.beijing2008.cn/

Edited by Harut, 09 August 2008 - 02:20 PM.

[Harut]

Don't forget to watch the Dutch women's waterpolo team. There's a nice surprise in there. August 11 is the first time they play.

Also, does anyone know if there are other Armenians playing for other countries?

Anyway, thank god for Dutch public TV and BBC.. No commercial breaks at all.

Btw, I thought the countries came in order of how many strokes it takes to draw the first character of the name of the country.

there are many...
i found 4 of them just by searching for yan/ian under letter "A" in "athletes" section... http://en.beijing2008.cn/

[DominO]

do you have the link?

thanks

Sure, but it's in French.

Go to this link:
http://pekin.radio-c...#...6.asx&pos=0

They're flash so no direct link. Scroll, just after the Flash screen, you will find two choice ''En direct'' and ''Sur Demande'', choose sur demande. Then ''Par date'' choose 8 août 2008, on the video choices it gives you choose ''L'entrée des athlètes dans le stade''. Armenia is on 40:43.

If you need clarification...

[Harut]

thanks