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Picture From The Opening Day

Время публикации: 29.08.2012 17:21 | Последнее обновление: 29.08.2012 17:22

On the Olympiad's opening day organizers showed short movie with world champions. There was this shot:


This screenshot is from sport.news.am

The image of the 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosyan bore a legend “Efim Bogolyubov”.


  



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