An e-mail was sent to Hetq by a certain Patrik Baboumian living in Germany. He bills himself as a professional “strongman”. (Just look at the accompanying photo). “Currently I’m the only Armenian to compete on international level at strongman competitions,” he writes.

Baboumian says that on February 12th, he’ll be competing at the world championships in the log lift. The competition will be held in Vilnius (Lithuania) and is going to be broadcasted live via EUROSPORT-2.