Olympics: Wrestling coach on hunger strike

SOFIA: Bulgarian wrestling coach and two-times Olympic champion Armen Nazaryan has started a hunger strike to protest the sport being dumped from the 2020 Olympics, said the country’s wrestling federation yesterday.

“The two times Olympic champion will not eat until the start of the European Championship on March 22 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and will only take juices,” said a statement. “Wrestling has always been on the Olympics programme and it is not right to take it out. I sincerely hope that my action will convince the International Olympic Committee to review its decision,” said Nazaryan in the statement.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 4^th, 2013.