Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia)
August 13, 2004 Friday

Chakhoyan evades detection

WEIGHTLIFTING: Sergo Chakhoyan can be a difficult man to find.

The great hope of Australian weightlifting at the Olympics has been
locked away training in Armenia for much of the year in the hope he
can win his adopted country its first weightlifting gold medal at a
Games since Dean Lukin in 1984.

In the 85kg division he will be challenged by hometown favourite and
triple Olympic gold medallist Pyrros Dimas and a handful of other
competitors for the top prize but must be considered a show given his
No.1 ranking and third place at last year’s world championships.

The 34-year-old is scheduled to arrive in Athens tomorrow for
competition which begins on August 21.