On Monday, Levik Mikaelyan defeated Azerbaijani Jeyhun Allahverdiyev 2:1 to be crowned U23 European Champion In the 61 kg weight category.

The Armenian defeated Azerbaijani Jeyhun Allahverdiyev 2-1 in the finals. He has lost to Allahverdiyev at the 2023 European U20 Championship.

The Armenian spoke to Italian broadcaster SportMediaset ahead of next week’s derby clash with Milan.

Mkhitaryan remarked that “If it were to happen, it would be the first time in the history of Serie A.”

Inter are now right on the verge of clinching the Serie A title.

The only team who would be capable of catching the Nerazzurri, mathematically speaking, are city rivals Milan.

“Being able to win the derby and the title at the same time is a crazy and historic opportunity,” the 35-year-old midfielder added.

Lalayan won the heavyweight (+109 kg) competition with a result of 463 kg (210+253 kg).

Two-time Olympic Vice-Champion, two-time World and European Champion Simon Martirosyan took the fourth place with the result of 440 kg (195+245).

Armenia was not awarded the 2024 World Championships after a man ran onto the stage at the opening ceremony of the 2023 European Championships in Yerevan, seized an Azerbaijan flag and set it on fire.

Arayik Harutyunyan called it a “huge blow to our sport.” “But as a result of our consistent work that lasted for months, we can consider that problem solved,” he said in a Facebook post.

This is the first World Championships in an Olympic discipline to be held in Armenia.

The conditions of their inclusion include competing without flags, emblems or anthems of their country.

Athletes from those nations were banned after Russia waged war against Ukraine in February 2022.

Letting individuals take part was about “respecting human rights” the IOC said.

However, World Athletics said its position remains unchanged, with athletes, support personnel and officials from Russia and Belarus remaining excluded “from all World Athletics Series events”.

“You may well see some neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus in Paris, it just won’t be in athletics,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Friday.

Speaking at the World Athletics Council Meeting in Monaco, Coe added: “We have a fixed position. I think it is right that International Federations should make judgements that they feel is in the best interest of their sport. That is what our council has done.”

Ukraine had threatened to boycott the 2024 Games if the ban was not upheld but Ukraine’s sports minister Vadym Huttsait told Reuters in July it could drop that threat if Russian and Belarusian athletes were made to compete under a neutral flag.

The reason for the raid was not immediately clear but Cojo said they were “cooperating fully with the investigators in order to facilitate their investigation.”

This is the first such raid on the organizing committee headquarters.

The searches of their premises were conducted by anti-corruption and financial crime investigators and the BRDE, the financial brigade of the Parisian police, another source close to the probe said.

Two years ago two reports by the French anti-corruption agency (AFA) highlighted “risks affecting probity” and “conflicts of interests” which it warned could impinge on the “whiter than whiter” image of the Games that the head of the organising committee, Tony Estanguet, wished for.

AFA inspectors said the procedure for purchases was “imprecise and incomplete” and emphasized that there “exists sometimes potential situations of conflicts of interests which are not overseen correctly.”