Netherlands: Olympic dreams of B. Hakhverdian coming true

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Press Release
26 August 2007

Olympic dream coming true for Armenian-Dutch Water Polo International Player
Biurakn Hakhverdian

By Inge Drost

Biurakn Hakhverdian, daughter of Iranian-Armenian parents, was dreaming of
participating to the 2008 Olympics in China. Today her water polo team from
the Netherlands won the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in
Kirishi, Russia, where only the winner out of the nine competing teams could
qualify directly for the 2008 Olympics in China.

During the whole tournament the team had been playing far beyond what could
have been expected, and winning the finals against the favourite, Russian
team came as a surprise for many. Biarakn, reacting from Kirishi, is
"speechless" and "very proud". She still cannot yet believe that next year
the Dutch team will be playing in the Olympic Games in Beijing.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

www.abovian.nl

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS