The 2006 Winter Olympic Games were over in Turin. Six Armenian sportsmen participated in them. As it was expected, they not only failed to win any medals, but also failed to avoid the last places.

In the fifth round of the Linares Chess Super tournament Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronyan beat the leader of the tournament Peter Svidler. After this win Levon has 3 points and occupies the third place. Svidler who is currently in the second place has 3.5 points.

After one-day recess Chess super tournament in Linares restarted. In the 4th tour Levon Aronyan played a draw with Spanish Francisco Valekho.

The third prize winner of the Armenian Championship “Banants” continues to seriously prepare for the 2006 championship.

President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov arrived in Baku on official call where he met with meads of Chess Federation of Azerbaijan. The President of Fide sounded, that they had not recognized the results of international tournaments held in Azerbaijan and wouldn't.

A chess tournament has started in Linares in which eight experienced grand masters are playing, including the World Cup winner Levon Aronyan. The Armenian chess player met the Azeri player Temur Rajabov in the first round and beat him.

In the Winter Olympic Games in Turin the Armenian skiers joined the competition again today. In the 15km classical ski competition the representatives of Armenia managed to reach the finish. Edmon Khachatryan was the 83rd, and Hovhannes Sargsyan was the 87th. {BR} Let us remind you that the two sportsmen were not able to reach the finish on February 14 in the team competition. Today the Armenian...

The Aeroflot chess international competition finished in Moscow. In the last round Armenian grand masterс Vladimir Hakobyan and Tigran Petrosyan celebrated wins. They shared the 5th place with five other chess players with six points each. By additional results Tigran Petrosyan took the 8th places, and Vladimir Hakobyan – the 9th. By the way, the latter was the second in the competition...

Today the FIFA announced the rating list of the Football National Teams by February 15. The Armenian National Team is still in the 108th place, although we have lost one point. There is a good possibility to go ahead in the rating list as on February 27 is Cyprus our National Team will participate in an international tournament. We shall play the first game with the Romanian national team. {BR} The...

As we have already informed, the schedule of the “Euro-2008” first group has been decided in Brussels. According to it, Armenia and Azerbaijan will play in September 2007. UEFA has mentioned several times that the matches must take place in Yerevan and Baku, but the Azeri side does not was to accept the decision and continues to spread false information. {BR} In particular, today the...

The matches between Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place in Yerevan and Baku. Today in Brussels the schedule of the preliminary phase of the «EURO-2008» was decided. The Armenian National Football Team will start the matches with the National Team of Belgium on September 6, 2006, in Yerevan. {BR} The two matches with the Azeri national teams will take place in September 2007. The representative...

Tomorrow in Brussels game schedule of 1st group of elimination matches will be arranged. Armenian team is involved in that group and is to play with Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Belgium, Finland, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.{BR} The places Armenian and Azeri teams' meetings will also be decided. Armenian delegation left for Brussels today where it will present variants worked out here. If the parties...

February 12 in the Italian city of Turin the 2006 Winter Olympic Games will start. Yesterday the Armenian sport delegation left for Turin. The delegation includes the participants of the Games, the coaches, the President of the Olympic Committee Gagik Tsaroukyan, the secretary of the Sport Committee Armen Grigoryan and others. {BR} This time 5 Armenia sportsmen will participate in the Games. By...

The Armenian grand master Vladimir Hakobyan occupied only the forth place in the international chess competition in Gibraltar, sharing it with 6 other chess players. {BR} Although Hakobyan was the second in the competition with his reputation, he did not win a prize. In the last 10th round Hakobyan beat Suria Janguli and won 7 points in total. The winner of the competition was Kiril Georgiev who...

Secretary of Football Federation of Azerbaijan Fahid Musayev sounded that after holding a consultation they came to the conclusion that the forthcoming meetings between Azeri and Armenian football teams are expedient to be hold in a neutral field, possibly in Tbilisi.{BR} Armenian party stated several times that is ready to receive Azeri team or provided that security guarantees are got, go to Baku....

“Pyunik”’s act was discussed in the regular sitting of AFF executive committee. As it’s known, the champion of Armenia refused to meet with Baku “Nevftchi” in the semi-final of “Cooperation Cup” games and returned to Armenia.{BR} During the sitting on AFF president Rouben Hayrapetyan’s offer vice-president of “Pyunik” Karen Haroutyunyan, as well as president of the club Khoren Hovhannisyan, who, though, hadn’t been in Moscow...

Arriving in Yerevan “Pyunik” vice-president Karen Haroutyunyan gave the reasons of refusal to play with “Neftchi” at the press-conference.{BR} At the beginning of the press-conference representative of the club Andranik Tsaturyan read the statement of leaders of “Pyunik”, which, in particular, says: “Last year despite the oral guarantees of the “Cooperation Cup” organizational committee “Pyunik” – “Neftchi” meeting passed...

Today afternoon Yerevan Pyunik arrived in Yerevan. Representatives of the team don't want to comment on the «Pyunik»'s refusal to play with «Neftchi».{BR} Yet «Pyunik»'s vice-president Karen Haroutyunyan told a reporter of «Sovetski Sport» the following: «We demanded from the organizers to insure security of our football-players and fans. Last year a fight took place between the players,...

AFF President Rouben Hayrapetyan did not wish to comment on “Pyunik”’s refusal to play in the semi-final of “Cooperation Cup” games held between champions of CIS and Baltic countries. “I’m only responsible for national team matches, «Pyunik» has its leaders and its president.{BR} It should be noted that at the press-conference held in January last year Rouben Hayrapetyan declared that “has a big wish to meet with “Neftchi”...

According to reliable sources Yerevan's «Pyunik» refused to take part in the semi-final of «Cooperation cup» games, where it was supposed to have as a rival Baku’s “Neftchi”.{BR} Leaders of «Pyunik» decided not to take part in the above-mentioned meeting and arrived in Yerevan today morning. The champion of Armenia will arrive in Armenia tonight, and then the reason of this abrupt decision will be found out. We should note that the...

Champion of Armenia “Pyunik” reached the quarter-final in «Cooperation Cup» tournament between CIS and Baltic countries{BR}

The results of the poll held among sports reporters of Armenia made Levon Aronyan the best sportsman of 2005. Aronyan was the first in the ballots of all the 37 journalists taking part in the inquiry.{BR}

In the final match of the 2005 ATP season – Masters Cup held in Shanghai David Nalbandian fought back for a sensational Masters Cup victory beating World No. 1 Roger Federer of Switzerland. {BR} The first two sets were taken by Federer 7:6, 7:6. But Nalbandian managed to take the last 3 sets – 6:2, 6:1, 7:6 and to win the match which lasted 4 and a half hours. After the win Nalbandian leaped to the 6th place from the 12th in the world list...

As we have already informed, during the youth world karate championship held in Cyprus the Azeri sportsmen attacked the Armenians. The Chairman of the RA Karate Federation Grigor Miqaelyan rendered a press conference today representing the details of the incident. He mentioned that it had an influence on the Armenian sportsmen and helped them to win medals. {BR} The assault of the Azeris took place...