Istanbul vs Gyumri, Pan-Armenian Games
Istanbul vs Gyumri, Pan-Armenian Games, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia for EurasiaNet 2007
Now that the Pan-Armenian Games has begun, there’s pretty much sporting events scheduled to be held every day for the next week. However, despite that and free entrance, the basketball games I attended today were poorly attended although I suspect that’s because no real information about what games are being played where and when appears to be available.
Nevertheless, I caught Nice-Fresno, Montreal-Glendale and also Gyumri-Istanbul. Interestingly, in all cases, players communicated with each other in their own native language while playing — English for Fresno, Montreal and Glendale, for example, and Turkish for Istanbul. Hardly surprising, I suppose, but interesting nonetheless.
Anyway, the matches were all exciting even with a tiny audience, and Istanbul beat Gyumri 73-60. The match was great whichever way it went which is pretty much the point of the games, I suppose. I’ll try to post some photos from the other matches later.
Istanbul vs Gyumri, Pan-Armenian Games, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia for EurasiaNet 2007
Istanbul supporters, Pan-Armenian Games, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia for EurasiaNet 2007
Onnik,
Please post more pics of the the gals from the last pictures in this series. Thanks
narbey
Comment by Narbey Derbekyan — August 20, 2007 @ 6:00 am
My thesis is that the common language of at least the Diaspora will be English. By the way the Montrealers tend to be quadrilingual - Armenian, English, French and one of Arabic, Turkish, Farsi, Russian or Spanish.
Comment by R — August 20, 2007 @ 7:12 am
heyyy !!! those are awesome pix. I’d love to see pix of the Australian Basketball team playing. ahh that’d be great if you could get some. Keep posting and updating us. loving it.
- M.
Comment by Em — August 20, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
In Melkonian ( Melkonian Education Institute) although students came from many countries the common language was Armenian. I am sure if MEI was not shut down and if it participated you could here some strange Armenian speaking
that is “MEI dialect”. This was pretty useful as we could communcate in secret that is, in Armenian and successfuly beat the Greek or English speaking teams.
Comment by Haik — August 20, 2007 @ 8:42 pm