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Tokyo 2020: Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov starts with an impressive win

Emil Lazarian 2021
Public Radio of Armenia


Tokyo 2020: Armenian boxer Hovhannes Bachkov starts with an impressive win 

European champion Hovhannes Bachkov (63 kg) started his performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with an impressive win.

The Armenian boxer defeated Ryan Alston, representing Antigua and Barbuda, 5-0.

The Armenia had advantage in all the rounds, and knocked down the opponent in the first and second rounds.

Supporting the boxer were Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, Deputy Minister of Sport Karen Giolyan, other members of the Armenian delegation.

In the 1/8 final Bachkov will face Javid Chalabiyev from Azerbaijan.

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