Georgian wrestlers

Chidaoba, Georgian traditional wrestling, listed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage

By | November 29th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Boys contest in Georgian Chidaoba. (Georgian National Wrestling Federation.) TBILISI, DFWatch--Chidaoba has been added to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. The traditional Georgian style of wrestling has bred dozens of Olympic and world champions in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling as well as judo. "The practice is a complex [...]

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Georgian, Ossetian athletes facilitated release of a woman from Tskhinvali jail

By | October 23rd, 2018|Categories: Conflict news|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Maia Otinashvili (Photo: Goga Aptsiauri, RFE/RL). Several wrestlers and possibly other acting and retired athletes had played a key role in the release of 37 y/o Georgian woman from Tskhinvali prison, the family says, which was confirmed also by Georgia’s State Security Service (SUS). […]

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