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JULFALAKYAN DISCONTENT WITH REFEREEING

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The Armenian delegation was in the center of everyone’s attention at the World Championship in Baku. Azerbaijani journalists were not allowed to interview Armenian coaches or wrestlers.

Instead, representatives of Russian mass media talked to the Armenian national team. Levon Julfalakyan, the chief coach of Greek-Roman style and Olympic Champion expressed his discontent with partial refereeing.

“I am not satisfied with the performances of my team. My team was prepared to bring 2-4 medals from Baku and 5-6 Olympic allowances. We won only one bronze medal and 2 allowances. The referees did not allow us to compete properly. I ensure you, that I do not like to complain and always look for the reasons of our failure in my team, but here I have to point out the negative attitude of referees toward the Armenian national team”, he said. According to the coach, specialists of any neutral country will express the same point of view.

“Roman Amoyan, 55 kg, European champion in 2006 competed with Rovash Bayramov, European champion in 2007. The referees often helped the hosts, and I wonder why they did not give any points to Amoyan. Their judgment was also partial toward Arman Adikyan, 66 kg, who fought for a bronze medal. The referees simply mocked at Denis Forov, 84 kg. At least the Armenian flag was raised in Baku owing to Yuri Patrikeev”, said the coach.

Julfalakyan finds that here everything was normal. “Yuri was the only wrestler whom the referees treated fairly and the result was the medal”.

Julfalakyan thanked the employees of Azerbaijani security service for their professional work.

“Of course, we felt embarrassed. It was difficult that we were unable to attend public places, since the security employees always accompanied us. But no incident took place due to the professionalism of the employees of security service”.

The Armenian team of Greek-Roman style took the 12-th place. The winner was the US. Russia and Georgia followed the US.

Members of Turkish delegation complained of the World Championship in Baku. The Turkish media wrote that the participants of the championship faced many problems in Baku.