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April 10, 2020 - 13:16 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Italian football club Roma are unwilling to pay the €25m asking price for midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, so reportedly hope to extend his loan from London's Arsenal by another season, Football Italia reports. The 31-year-old Armenia international made the move for €3m last summer and ...

Premier League clubs will receive millions of pounds in advanced payments related to league positioning and television fees in an effort to ease their cash-flow problems, BBC Sport reports. The 20 clubs agreed to the funding to cope with the lack of income because of the coronavirus crisis, with payments expected to be in the ...

April 3, 2020 - 14:45 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Arsenal have reportedly rejected two offers made by Roma for the transfer of midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Express reveals. Mkhitaryan has been on loan at Roma throughout the season. The Serie A club have had two bids, the last one of around £10 million ($12 million) rejected by the ...

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen is launching an online chess super-tournament amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Magnus Carlsen Invitational sees the World Chess Champion challenge seven of his biggest rivals to a 2-week, $250,000 battle. Every move will be streamed live on chess24. “Chess is unique in the sports world as th...

Tennis star Serena Williams tried an Armenian brandy during a self-quarantine amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Her husband, the Reddit and Initialized Capital co-founder Alexis Ohanian, convinced the tennis star to drink his own Armenian brandy, called Shakmat (the Armenian word for chess). “I am not a big drinker...

Filipino-born Australian chess player Arianne Caoili has died at the age of 33 in Yerevan, Armenia, two weeks after being seriously injured in a car crash. The cause of death wasn’t immediately available. Caoili’s husband, the Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian, tweeted: “I have no words to express the grievance over my wi...

The Tokyo Olympic Games will start on 23 July, 2021 and run to 8 August after being postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) executive board met on Monday to make the decision, BBC reported. The Olympics will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021. ...

March 30, 2020 - 18:44 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has reportedly told Arsenal that he would like to stay in Italy after a recent phone call and hopes Roma will be able to reach a €12 million deal, The Mail Online says citing Italian media publications. The Gunners have leased Mkhitaryan on a sea...

March 30, 2020 - 18:12 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Tokyo Olympics will open in 2021 in the same time slot scheduled for the games in 2020. Tokyo organizers say the opening ceremony will take place on July 23, 2021 — almost exactly one year after the games were due to start this year, The Associated Press reports. The IOC and Japa...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Government of Japan today agreed new dates for the games of the XXXII Olympiad, in 2021, the IOC said today. The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will be held from 23 Jul...