”When a warrior asks God to give him strength to succeed, he receives fatigue to learn to obey!
When he asks for the second time, he receives from God more difficulties to learn to overcome them!”
Neko-Ryu Karate treatise

‘Our team demonstrated high technical and theoretical knowledge…‘

Under the sponsorship of Japan International Karate-Do Association and Bulgarian Karate-Do Federation, on November 2-4, Sofia hosted the 9th  Karate-Do International Seminar and Tournament, with participation of  Sadashige Kato, the head instructor of the said organization and 10th Dan holder, as the head referee of the Tournament. This annual Tournament is held according to I.-J.K.A. rules.

The Olympic days in London kept all of us the members of the Georgian national team very, very busy. In addition to the Games to be attended, there were myriad other places which could not have been missed and plenty of important events to participate in. One of the most significant spots to be present at was the Guildhall Art Gallery of London where I went together with my team-mates Emzar Zenaishvili – the Olympic Games expert, Paata Natsvlishvili – author and publisher and Alexander Kotorashvili – photographer.

Nobody had expected a boisterous rush of Olympic medals in Georgia but there still was a flickering hope and certain amplitude of trepidation for winning more than a couple.Did not happen! There came one piece of gold around right at the start of the Games, for which fact our heart-squeezing gratitude goes to God and to the Man himself of course. Yes, it came like the manna from the blessed Olympic sky, and then stopped to the worst of our frustration and unlived-up-to expectation.

here was a bulky brochure, titled ‘From Georgia to London’ (Compiled and designed by Paata Natsvlishvili, Executive Producer Emzar Zenaishvili) out in Georgia right before the country’s Olympic team’s departure to London – a pictorial history of Georgia’s participation in the Olympic Games since 1952, although until re-obtaining national independence in early nineties of the last century, the Georgian athletes could participate in the Games only as the members of the USSR team, not in any other manner.

hooter Nino Salukvadze, the legend of the Georgian sports was a proud presence for the Georgian lookers-on at the Olympic march of the athletes at the London Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony on July 27, 2012. Nino has truly deserved the honor. She is the only athlete from Georgia who possesses the whole set of Olympic medals – gold, silver and bronze. Gold and silver medals in sport pistol and air pistol events she won in Seoul in 1988 as an USSR team member. At that time, she was only 19 years of age. 

‘London Glory’ - that was the main headline by the ‘London Evening Standard’ the day of the opening ceremony of the 30th Olympic Games held in the capital city of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Standard wrote the evening of the opening ceremony on Friday, July the 27th that hundreds of thousands of people lined the Thames to cheer the Olympic torch on its final voyage and to celebrate London’s day of destiny. The Queen’s row-barge Gloriana made its glorious journey towards the London 2012 stadium. Gloriana took the flame on the last leg of its 70-day round-Britain journey, covering 8,000 miles by 8,000 torch-bearers and drawing crowds of 14 million. 

uman beings would be made look decidedly unimpressive where animals are allowed to compete in the Olympics – outperformed by the likes of kangaroos, gorillas and ostriches. The world’s fastest man may just be able to outrun a dromedary camel but would trail the cheetah, greyhound and ostrich in a sprint race, ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ (faster, higher, stronger) is the Olympic motto, but if we allowed the rest of the animal kingdom into the Games, we could not offer much competition. Jamaican track star Usain Bolt holds the 100-metre record of 9.58 seconds, which translates into a speed of 37.6 kilometers per hour.

3gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals– this was the success that was achieved by Georgian karate sportsmen at XV International A Class Tournament in Britain, which is held annually by arrangement of British Martial Arts Federation. 

Vazha  Simonishvili

According to information that was spread across the Georgian Internet section, Marc Salyers, former player of Sokhumi Basketball Club, is set to sue the club.

‘After the investigation the perpetrators will get strictest punishment’

Georgian law-enforcers detained five players of Georgian football clubs – Roin Oniani, Levan Vartagava (‘Baia’, Zugdidi), Spartak Gogia, Kakhaber Kirtadze (‘Samtredia’) and Giga Bechvaia (‘Vit Georgia’).

David Beckham arrived to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy four years ago amid much hoopla of turning the U.S. into a soccer-loving country. His American summer debut was a media circus with stars like Tom Cruise, Eva Longoria, Mary-Kate Olsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger turning out to catch a glimpse of Becks on the field.

Georgian Sportsman Aiming at K-1 Champion Title

“Georgians are lucky to have the only sportsman in the world, a universal fighter in the history of fight, winner of three different fighting systems, Kyokushin, Kung-Fu and K-1. There is no other fighter world over who could achieve the same results. If we transfer the achievements into wrestling, it means a wrestler gaining Freestyle, Judo and Sumo at the same time.”

Rati  Shelegia

Like previous years, sporting life in Georgia in 2010 was in full swing. Earlier, while summing up the yearly events, we mainly spoke about the success of our wrestlers but this year it was the other way round – we remember them for their scandals and hopeless tournaments. Contrary to them, the football and basketball national teams made us happy.