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  • ArmeniaNow.Com Sports Digest April 01, 2005

    ARMENIANOW.COM SPORTS DIJEST APRIL 01, 2005
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    SPORTS DIGEST: FROM SWINDON TO PARIS TO ARMENIA, 26.2 MILES FOR PYUNIC

    By Suren Musayelyan
    ArmenianNow Reporter

    RUNNING

    Tim Manook is not a professional runner. But when the 20-year-old
    student from Swindon, UK, runs in the (42 kilometer) Paris Marathon on
    April 10 he will be running to raise money for the PYUNIC Armenian
    Association for Disabled.

    The undergraduate at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, says he
    hopes `to raise awareness and support of maybe $1,000' for this
    charity by his efforts through Paris' streets.

    Last summer Tim spent two months in Armenia interning in the Ministry
    of Foreign Affairs. He says it was then that he first came into
    contact with PYUNIC.

    This year PYUNIC (www.pyunic.org) will be celebrating its 15th
    anniversary as a registered charity. Over the years PYUNIC has grown
    from its original immediate aim of aiding earthquake victims to
    providing support for all disabled Armenians.

    Since 1989 the charity has organized 20 summer and winter sport camps
    attended by more than 2,000 people, with activities including
    swimming, sailing, weightlifting, archery, skiing, basketball and
    others.

    On July 18, 1998 the Government of Armenia gave PYUNIC a 32,000
    sq. ft., four-storey building to serve as its center for providing
    services and programs. Over the years the building has been vandalized
    and materials stolen. There is a need for major reconstruction to the
    building.

    Manook welcomes all contributions.

    His email is: [email protected]

    and postal address: 31 Yarmouth Close Toothill, Swindon Wiltshire, SN5
    8LL

    FOOTBALL

    Armenia got its first win in the World Cup 2006 qualifying campaign
    with a 2-1 victory over Andorra last Saturday in Yerevan.

    But that hard-won victory (Armenia scored the winner only 17 minutes
    from time after the Andorrans managed to score an unlikely equalizer
    earlier in the second half) was overshadowed by the team's 0-2 defeat
    from the Dutch in Eindhoven on Wednesday.

    Both goals were scored by the Dutch in the first half (the first after
    only 3 minutes) and it took quite an effort from Armenia to keep their
    goal safe in the second half.

    (Unlike the full team, Armenia U-21 managed to snatch a point from
    their Dutch coevals on Tuesday, holding them to a goalless
    draw. Andorra doesn't have a U-21 team, so Armenia's juniors didn't
    play on Saturday).

    As a result of the two matches Armenia managed to leave the bottom
    place in Group 1 and is now sixth (with four points in seven matches)
    ahead of Andorra (which also has four points) due to the win in
    Yerevan.

    Armenia's next opponent is Macedonia in Yerevan on June 4. Macedonia,
    who hosted Armenia last autumn and won 3-0, are immediately above the
    Armenian team in the group with five points.

    Group 1 current standings are as follows:

    TEAM MP PTS
    NETHERLANDS 6 16
    CZECH REPUBLIC 6 15
    ROMANIA 7 13
    FINLAND 6 9
    MACEDONIA 7 5
    ARMENIA 7 4
    ANDORRA 7 4
    BOXING

    Australia's Vic (Vakhtang) Darchinyan retained his IBF flyweight title
    with an eighth-round stoppage of South Africa's Mzukisi Sikali in
    Sydney on Sunday, March 28.

    The 29-year-old Darchinyan, making the first defense of the title he
    won in December, was ahead on all three of the judges' scorecards.

    It was the Armenian-born fighter's 23rd straight win and his 18th by
    knockout.

    After the fight, Darchinyan called out WBA champion Lorenzo Parra. The
    Venezuelan is unbeaten in 25 fights (source: BBC Sports).
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