Sports: Sports: Armenian Olympic Champions, silver and bronze medal winners to receive lifetime payments

Public Radio of Armenia

Armenia’s Olympic Champions will henceforth receive lifetime payments amounting to AMD 200 thousand (about $400), the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport informs.

For the first time in the history of independent Armenia, silver and bronze medal winners will also get lifetime payments amounting to AMD 140 thousand and AMD 100 thousand respectively.

The same regulation provides for a lifetime payment of 100 thousand drams for non-Olympic sports for athletes who have won the World Championships in chess, sambo and ship modeling.

The decision applies to all athletes included in the teams of both the Republic of Armenia and the former Soviet Union, if they reside in Armenia and are citizens of the Republic of Armenia.

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