Sports: Armenia flag waving at 2018 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony

PanArmenian, Armenia

Feb 9 2018

February 9, 2018 – 17:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is underway in South Korea, with a number of world leaders attending the opening ceremony on Friday, February 9.

The parade of athletes started, according to custom, by the Greek team. The delegations of Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and the Netherlands are right behind them. The delegations are entering in alphabetical order based on their names in the Korean language.

Skier Mikayel Mikayelyan was waving the Armenian flag, with head of delegation Gagik Bolshikyan, Olympians Katya Galstyan, Ashot Karapetyan, coaches Artur Mikayelyan and Seyran Harutyunyan, as well as head of Armenia’s ski federation Gagik Sargsyan following right behind him.

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