Abkhazian national team at the World Domino Championship. Photo courtesy of the Abkhazian domino national team http://sputnik-abkhazia.ru/Abkhazia/20171029/1022268351/abxaziya-v-pervoj-desyatke-zavershilsya-chempionat-mira-po-domino.html

30 October 2017, 04:45

Abkhazian domino national team enters top ten in world

On October 22-29, the city of Willemstad in the island of Curaçao hosted the World Domino Championship. The national team of Abkhazia occupied the tenth place.

Domino is a quite popular game in Abkhazia. In October 2011, the republic hosted the 8th World Domino Championship. Georgia declared its illegality and urged the countries of the world to refrain from participation in the "event in the occupied territory." Nevertheless, 312 athletes from 25 countries took part in the competitions. The national team of the Dominican Republic won.

This year, more than 500 people took part in the World Domino Championship, the "Sputnik-Abkhazia" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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