Sports: Armenian athlete grabs bronze at Summer Deaflympics

Emil Lazarian 2017
Panorama, Armenia

Member of the Armenian national team Sargis Sargsyan (57kg) has won a bronze medal by placing third in freestyle wrestling at the 23rd Summer Deaflympics underway in Samsun, Turkey. As the ministry of sport and youth affairs reports, earlier Armenian Greco-Roman wrestlers have won 3 bronze medals, while judoka Robert Gevorgyan was declared vice champion.

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