YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. 25 Armenian sportsmen and
sportswomen will take part in Beijing 2008 Olympics on August
8-24. During the preparation period, the boxers, free-style and
Greco-Roman wrestlers and weightlifters are training in the
Tsakhkadzor olympic sports complex, while the swimmers and
athletes are undergoing training in Yerevan and Gymri. Norayr
Bakhtamian, a 4th prize winner at the previous Olympics in
Athens, is training at "Mytishche" olympic shooting-range near
Moscow and will compete in the open championship of the Russian
Federation on July 1-10. The Armenian judoists have been invited
to participate in the instructive training gathering of
representatives of more than 20 countries in Spain on June
27-July 7.