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Dereyan: Armenian Olympians Showcase Their Sportsmanship
The Armenian Weekly sports correspondent Antranig Dereyan reports from Vancouver.
VANCOUVER, Canada—Armenia's athletes are all in the same boat, trying to do their best, but with little exposure and much doubt from the outside nations on their abilities.
Kristine Khachatryan and Sergey Mikayelyan, both cross-country skiers, have already completed their respective events.
Khachatryan, in the ladies’ 10 km. free, started her race in the 78th position and finished 76th. Now, the most i
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We pray for Armenian Team rewards with a safe return to their Country and their Beloved.
Nodar Kumaritashvilli: Georgian Luger
You didn’t have place in luge artificial track
You went running prone
Returned supine
With hopeless locked eyes.
Olympics is a festival no one should die
The tragedies are tragedies no one can avoid.
If it was man made
Must get punishment.
Man made mistakes
Gave others rewards.
Inefficient Hands
Signed your unexpected death!
We are in tears
Can we forget?
Pains remain decades
For every innocent death.
We pray and say, “God helps your mother and no one else!”
Sylva Portoian, MD
February 18, 2010
Our prayers for Armenian Team rewards, with safe return to their country and their beloved.
Armenians took part in the first Olympics. Zareck Couyoumdzian in 1906 played on the Smyrna Football Team which won a silver medal (Smyrna was then part of Turkey) in Athens; Vahran Papazyan (only 13 years old) took part in Athletics (he was born in Uskudar, Istanbul and was affiliated with Robert College. In 1912, in Stockholm, Vahran Papazyan and Migir Migiryan took part in Athletics on behalf of the team for the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
Although Robert College encouraged athletics for their students as a way for them to interact and get along in spite of their differences, and the Trustees also gave money to the YMCA where young local boys could take part in athletics, they were not happy about the Olympics where nationalism arose and nations were competing against each other.
Michail Dorizas, the best athlete to come out of Robert College, won a silver medal for the javelin throw in 1908 as a member of the Greek Olympic Team.