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Sports minister begins to summarize 100-days in office from beginning of year

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RA Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Levon Vahradyan summed up his 100-days of office. However, he presented not the period, but the ministry's work since the beginning of the year. In particular, Armenian athletes have already won 83 medals in major tournaments. 120 thousand people participated in mass sports events, out of which 112.648 were pupils. Minister noted that within the framework of mass sports events rural sports games, republican sports festival, republican games of elderly people, spartakiad of general education schools, republican military and youth sports ga mes, republican student sports games and etc. should be held till the end of this year. Asked by "A1 +" whether the current state of mass sports can be considered as satisfying, if only 3-4% of the population participate in those events, Mr. Vahradyan said. "With regard to the number of mass sports of our population, believe me it's a serious step. By the end of the year, the number of participants will reach 250-300 thousand," the Minister explained. Talking about the problems of Armenian sports, Levon Vahradyan said that first of all it is necessary to enhance cooperation with those sports schools that are not in the balance of the Ministry.