News.am, Armenia
Jan 14 2018
By Lusine Shahbazyan
Armenia’s leading skier, Sergey Mikayelyan, will not be able to compete at the forthcoming 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea; but his younger brother, Mikayel, will take his place at this event.
The Sochi, Russia, 2014 Winter Olympics participant told about the aforesaid to NEWS.am Sport.
“I already had qualified for the Olympics, but I sustained a knee injury during the last trainings, and I didn’t compete in some competitions, as a result of which I lost my position on the top 300 list; I will not participate in the [2018 Winter] Olympic Games,” Sergey Mikayelyan said. “[But] I’m happy that the participation of my brother, Mikayel Mikayelyan, has already been confirmed. He also has enough points that meet Olympic qualification.”
And Gagik Sargsyan, Secretary General of the Armenian Ski Federation, informed that Armenia will have one skier each at the men’s and the women’s competitions in Pyeongchang.