Gagik Sargsyan has resigned as President of the Armenian Ski Federation following weeks of tension with Armenia’s Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports sparked by an international controversy involving Armenian skier Mikayel Mikayelyan. Sargsyan announced his decision on Facebook on January 20, saying the move was difficult but inevitable amid what he described as a lack of state support and an unworkable environment for developing skiing in Armenia. In his statement, Sargsyan said it is impossible to develop skiing relying solely on the efforts of the federation or its president, stressing that meaningful progress requires collective will and institutional backing. He said years of appeals, proposals, and complaints to...