Tomorrow the Armenian combined team of football will play with the team of Finland. {BR} It seems to be just an elimination match but many things depend on it in fact. We will first find what Bernard Cassoni is capable of. When the Armenian football players sustained a defeat to Macedonia team by 0:3, no one criticized the French trainer since he had had little time to become acquainted with the football...

Bernard Cassoni, French trainer of the national combined team of Armenia, held a press conference on the eve of the match between Armenia-Finland. He underlined that the football players have progressed in comparison with the game with Macedonia team. {BR} Watching the video tapes of the matches of Finland team Cassoni has in details studied the rival and hopes that the Armenian football players will...

Sargis Sargssyan from Yerevan lost the game with Andre Agassi in the 4th tour in USA Open Championship for Tennis. Agassi won by 6:3, 6:2, 6;2. {BR} Though Sargssyan lost he performed successfully in that tournament enjoying high rating. His victory over 2004 Olympic champion Nikolia Masou was impressive. Andre Agassi entered the quarter-final. He will compete with Swiss Roger Federer.

As known, only 2 sportswomen were enrolled in the Armenian delegation for the Olympic Games in Athens. They partook in the games thanks to the additional places set by World Olympic Committee. In fact, we had nothing to expect from female sport but as usual women win almost the half of Olympic medals. {BR} Referring to our question regarding this fact, Ishkhan Zaqaryan, Chairman of Armenia’s...

”There is no need to politicize our failure in the Olympic Games. Sport is out of politics.”, Ishkhan Zaqaryan, Chairman of Armenia’s Sport Committee and Olympic Committee, announced at today’s conference. He was obviously aggravated with the criticism voiced by the political figures. {BR} Ishkhan Zaqaryan tried to stay away from those standpoints but he forgot how he together...

”Are you aware that the sport school in Tsakhkadzor was wrecked to build a restaurant instead and you have allotted the area to a MP?”, journalists have today asked Ishkhan Zaqaryan. {BR} Mr. Zaqaryan refuted the information this way: “Maybe journalists would write that Ishkhan is Ben Laden’s agent in this region?”.

”I don’t want to resign”, Ishkhan Zaqaryan, Chairman of Armenia’s Sport Committee and Olympic Committee, announced at today’s conference. Why doesn’t Mr. Zaqaryan want to resign if Armenia didn’t win any medal in Athens?. {BR} ”My task was to obtain finances and I did it perfectly. All the tasks set to me were fulfilled. Almost by 100 %”, Zaqaryan...

”I haven’t yet got the answer to why heavyweight Ashot Danielyan didn’t raise the weight”, Ishkhan Zaqaryan, Chairman of Armenia’s Sport Committee and Olympic Committee, announced. {BR} Mr. Zaqaryan is aware that Ashot Danielyan has always started from 200 kg in all the contests /it’s the weight which Ashot couldn’t raise in Athens/. “Ashot was under...

Ishkhan Zaqaryan, Chairman of Armenia’s Sport Committee and Olympic Committee, has today made an interesting statement regarding the key task of each Armenian: {BR} ”Martin Berberyan /the Armenian wrestler who won the Turkish wrestler during the Europe Championship in Istanbul, Turkey on April 24/ was a national hero 2 months ago. The newspapers say winning the Turks must be the key...

Third round of the U.S. Tennis Open is already over. Armenia’s Sargis Sargssyan defeated Paul Henri Matthew 6-4; 6-4; 4-6; 2-6; 7-6 and reached the next round.{BR} His next-round rival will be Andre Agassi, who won victory 6-4; 6-2; 6-3 over Yerzhi Novak at the third round. Sargssyan will face Agassi, who is ahead of the Armenian tennis player in ranking, later this night. Five meetings between...

Finnish football players, Armenian National’s rival in the trials for 2001 World Cup, earned 3 points by defeating Andorra 3-0.{BR} Match between A-group’s other contesters - Romania and Macedonia - ended in Romania’s 2-1 victory. Armenian is now preparing for the match with Finland to be held the coming Wednesday.

“Can we ask our people to show clemency toward us and our sportsmen”, said Michael Ispiryan, the vice-president of National Olympic Committee, after summing up Armenian team performance in the Olympic Games in Greece.{BR} How it could happen that none of Armenian 18 sportsmen managed to obtain any medal? That is the question that was put to Ispiryan at the press conference. “Not...

“If we want to win medals in Beijing, our sportsmen should be given scholarship of at least 1,000 USD”, heavy athletics coach Vahan Bichakhchyan said Thursday at a news conference. “What can I do with my 50-dollar salary?”{BR} Journalists asked what sum is needed to reach success in Olympic Games. “The more we would have the better we could perform. Three times more...

On Thursday, Michael Ispiryan, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan, said small countries are not allowed to win. Coach Levon Julfalakyan thinks Americans and Chinese won as many medals as much money they injected in sports.{BR} Heavy athletics coach Vahan Bichakhchyan said in his opinion not only coaches and sportsmen are contesting but also scientists. He said there is a concept of gene doping,...

Today journalists tried to find out who is responsible for Armenian sportsmen’s failure in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Armenian National Olympic Committee vice-president Michael Ispiryan said inferences will be made after careful analysis and somebody will answer for everything.{BR} Heavy athletics coach Vahan Bichackchyan said the failure was due to lack of money. Ispiryan objected...

After being defeated 0-3 by Macedonian football team in trials for the 2006 World Cup, the Armenian National plunged 6 points and is placed 119 in the UEFA ranking.{BR} Our national team is increasingly deteriorating its ranking for the last few years because of unsuccessful performances. Finnish National, Armenia’s next rival in the 2006 World Cup, lost 13 points after its unsuccessful...

On September 3 Armenia’s national combined team will get prepared for the match with Finland team. {BR} Armenia-Finland game will take place on September 8 in Yerevan in the “Republican” Stadium after Vazgen Sargssyan. It will start at 8:00 PM. Under the preliminary information we possess the tickets will be sold at 1500 drams for the northern and southern stands and 3000 drams for the seats in western and eastern ones.

Trials for UEFA Cup and Champions League are to start in thirteen days. Four Armenian clubs will participate in the event.{BR} Armenian Pyunik will face Macedonian Victory, Bnants will compete with Ukrainian Ilichevets, Shirak will meet with Moldavian Tiraspol and Mika with Hungarian Honved. To reach success our clubs need to be strengthened by invited professionals. Now Pyunik is composing its...

Chess World Championship’s quarterfinals are already completed in Tripoli. The only Armenian representative competing at the quarterfinal Vladimir Hakobyan failed to reach the semifinal after being defeated by Michael Adams 0,5 – 1,5.{BR} It was the only but fatal Hakobyan’s defeat.

The first games of the quarter-final in World Chess Championship took place in Tripoli. By lot Vladimir Hakobyan competed with English grand master Michael Adams. {BR} In the first game Adams won a victory. In the next set Vladimir Hakobyan needs only victory to keep playing whereas draw game is enough for Adams.

The only Armenian chess player continuing World Championship race is Vladimir Hakobyan, who after claiming victory over his eight-final rival Mikhay Krasenkov reached the quarterfinal.{BR} Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, British Michael Adams, Azeri Temur Rajabov, Russians Alexander Grischuk and Andrey Kharpov, Cuban Lenier Domingez and Uzbek Rustam Kashimjanov reached the quarterfinal as well.

2 matches of the 11th tour took place in Armenia’s Football Championship. {BR} ”Kotayq” hosted “Pyunik” in “Erebuni” Stadium and sustained a defeat by 1:6. “MIka” won “Banantc” by 1:0. 2 extra matches are scheduled tomorrow.

Lots for the qualification round of 2004/2005 UEFA Champion League were drawn in Nion, Switzerland. Armenia’s champion “Pyunik” will play with Macedonia champion “Pobeda”. {BR} The first match will take place on July 14 in Macedonia. The game in return will take place in “Republican” Stadium in Yerevan on July 21. In case of winning “Pobeda”...

Chess World Championship’s third round has already started. Vladimir Hakobyan is the only Armenian chess player who claimed a victory at the third round. He defeated Ukrainian grand master Alexander Moiseenko. Hakobyan will reach the forth round even in case of ending the second third-round game in draw.{BR} His teammates Levon Aronyan and Ashot Anastasyan faced Pavel Smirnow and Alexander...