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Artur joked and said that many are asking him why he didn’t knock-out Shanon Taylor when he was the one that challenged him. “I had the chance during all 12 rounds and I wanted to knock him out, but Taylor is built and I wasn’t able to.” Artur Abraham’s next boxing match will be on …

Armenian chess master Levon Aronyan surprised all Armenians by winning the super championship of Linares. Before the last tour he shared his place with Topalov, Rajabov and Leko. His chances were considered little because he had to play with black figures with Peter Leko. But he proved that he is a professional.

Parallel to the meeting of Kocharyan and Aliyev, there was another meeting in Brussels, but this meeting was about soccer. All we were interested in was how the teams of Azerbaijan and Armenia would have to play their game in the Euro 2008 soccer competition. The decision was shocking: the games are going to be …

Athletes will compete in 15 sports for 84 different medals. The most medals won so far are in skiing and figure skating. 2550 athletes from 85 countries are participating in the Olympics. 1440 trainers and officials are also in Torino and 9600 journalists will keep people informed about the events. There are nearly 2500 technicians …

According to “A1+”, sport reporter and founder of “Soccer and more” newspaper Suren Baghdasaryan denies the rumors that he is going against Ruben Hayrapetyan by accusing him of burning his car. Suren Baghdasaryan’s car, a 1990 US 990 state licensed “Toyota Prado” which was located not far from the “555” gas station near the “Soccer …

In one of the previous editions of “168 Hours”, we infromed our readers that boxer Vakhtang (Vic) Darchinyan is getting ready to sign a contract with well-known American promoter Garry Show. Vakhtang has already signed the contract and the world famous boxing web site SecondsOut.com wrote an article about this yesterday. The following is the …

The incident that happened in Moscow a couple of days ago shows that Armenians can’t play soccer, they can only watch others play soccer. If we pay attention to the broadcast of European football games on our local TV channels, we will see that Armenians watch all soccer games except their own. Please don’t think …

Yesterday the head of Pyunik football team, Karen Harutyunyan assured us that FIFA is not going to disqualify their club. Regarding the announcement of the Russian football club he said: “They didn’t even know the place of our hotel, how could they give us a normal answer?” To our question regarding why we weren’t informed …

He said that RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan had evaluated their work and the final grade was “fair”. By presenting their final statement Mr. Zakaryan said that the biggest achievement of 2005 was the fact that the corresponding federations of the committee were given the responsibility of financing the sports field. There are a total …

Today the traditional chess super-championship is going to start in Veik An Zee city in Holland. This is a 19th – class competition. 19 masters are going to take part in this competition, whose average reputation mark is 2716. This competition is special for us, because Levon Aronyan is going to take part in it …