Yup!
Our “friends” on the east.!
Armenia does not yet appear in the medals list.
http://www.nbcolympi...ings/index.html
Changing faces. Modern Olympics don’t look any thing like the original.
It is ironic that during classical Greek days no one had heard of 90% of these people. More ironic that during the beginning of the modern Olympics , 1896 there was no “boobaijan”.
Changing faces. China is well on its way to win this Olympics. Their faces don’t look very “greek”.
Speaking of faces, look how many non- Caucasians, non-Arians are playing for countries otherwise known as milk white.
For quite sometime Africans and African Americans have dominated the more physical sports like marathons, 100 meter dash etc., look what is happening when they enter the more noble and more “affluent” venues (Tiger Wood?)
And Cullen Jones.
His own story is that at the age of 4 he almost drowned and came back to “conquer “ the water. Listen to him;
PS. Armenia should also consider moving, besides the primitive weight lifting, wrestling, boxing etc. to the more noble sports like gymnastics,
http://www128.pair.c...k7/Azaryan2.jpg
http://www.azariangy...mages/hist3.jpg
http://www.google.co.../...=image&cd=1
http://www.armeniape...Armenian_Sports
swimming, synchronized swimming(water ballet, Swan Lake), diving etc. Not to forget Igor TerOhanessian (ՏէրՀովհաննիսյան)the broad jumper.
http://www.nytimes.c...ml?pagewanted=3
QUOTE
To Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, not quite twenty-two, who had made the Soviet team in the broad jump for the second straight Olympics, competing against athletes from the United States remained an intimidating prospect. Igor was the Soviet version of a gym rat, a lifelong product of the state-run athletic system. His father, an Armenian-born discus thrower, and his mother, a Ukrainian volleyball player, had met at the Kiev State Institute of Physical Education, and both taught there while he was growing up. Although he did not turn to track and field until he was fifteen, Ter-Ovanesyan showed uncommon early talent, breaking the broad-jump record for his age group in his first competition.
Edited by Arpa, 11 August 2008 - 08:45 AM.
