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Tuesday -- July 31, 1996

• Olympic Wrestling Tournament

Monday -- July 29, 1996

• Complete Weightlifting Results
  
• 108kg Results from Yesterday's Weightlifting
  
• Olympic Centennial Park Reopens today.

Saturday and Sunday July 27-28, 1996

• 99kg Final Results of Weightlifting
  
• Men - Long Jump Round 1 Results
  
• Men - Triple Jump Final Results

Friday -- July 26, 1996

• Bomb blast in Olympic Village.
  
• 83 KG Final Results in Weightlifting

Thursday -- July 25, 1996

• Sargis Sargsian lost a close match to Sweden's Thomas Enqvist, ranked 3rd in the tournament, in the second round of the Tennis Tournament. The final result was 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in favor of Enqvist.
  
• Olympic Boxing Standings

Wednesday -- July 24, 1996

• Images of the Olympics.
  
• 76 KG Final Results of Weightlifting
  
• 70 KG Final Results of Weightlifting
  
• Article from Atlanta Journal - Constitution

Tuesday -- July 23, 1996

• Armenia wins its first gold! Armen Nazaryan won gold in the 52kg division of Greco Roman Wrestling. "I want to dedicate this medal to my country, because it is the first time my nation has won gold," Nazaryan said.
  Results of the 52 KG division.
  
  
• Sargis Sargsian, NCAA Div.1 Singles Champion in 1995, defeated Daniel Nestor of Canada
  6-4, 6-4 in the First Round of the Tennis Tournament.
  
  
• Olympic Boxing Results: Lernik Papyan decisioned Kazumasa Tsujimoto of Japan, 10-5 in the flyweight division.
  
  

Monday -- July 22, 1996

• Olympic Wrestling Results:
  Mkhitar Manukyan defeated Usama Aziz of Sweden in the 62kg division.
  Tsolak Yeghishyan lost to Aleksander Sidorenko of Belarus.
  
  
• Sargis Sargsian, NCAA Div.1Champ, will be competing in Round 1 of the tennis tournament.
  
  

Sunday -- July 21, 1996

• Olympic Wrestling Results:
  Levon Geghamyan defeated Aleksander Jovancevic of Yugoslavia in Round 4 of the 82kg division, but lost in Round 5 to Daulet Turilykhanov of Kazakhstan.
  Hamza Yerlikaya of Turkey won the gold in that division.
  
  

Saturday -- July 20, 1996

• Olympic Boxing results:
  Nashan Munchyan got a bye in the light flyweight division.
  Mikhak Ghazaryan got a bye in the lightweight division.
  
  
• Olympic Wrestling results:
  Aghasi Manukyan defeated Nabil Salhi of Tunisia in the 57kg division.
  Samuel Manukyan lost to Yalcin Karapinar of Turkey in the 68kg division.
  Martin Lidberg of Sweden defeated Levon Geghamyan in the 82kg division.
  
  

Friday -- July 19, 1996

• Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Centennial Olympics in Atlanta.
  
  
• See some of the more exciting moments of the opening ceremonies.

News up to Thursday -- July 18, 1996

• Article from July 18, 1996 issue of Asbarez.
  
  
• Armenia will be sending 32 athletes to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. This is the first time that Armenia will be participating as a complete team.
  
  
• If you send a message or a question to Team Armenia, the players and coaches themselves will be glad to respond back to you from Atlanta.
  
  
• On Tuesday, July 16, Team Armenia will attend a banquet at Saint Ann's Episcopal Church at 5:30 PM set up by the Armenian residents of Atlanta in honor of the Armenian Olympic Team.
  
  
• The Team will be moving into the Olympic Village as of Thursday July 18.
  
  
• Over 80 people are going as part of the team, including the players, coaches and delegates from Armenia.
  
  
• Over 400 Armenian residents will be flying to Atlanta to watch Team Armenia bring home the gold!
  
  
• As the events unfold, please revisit this site for exciting new news on how Armenia is doing, and make sure to take a look at our medal tally on our homepage.