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Fans from all over
Sat, 11/03/2007 - 7:50pm
By Charlotte Eriksen
CHICAGO - The boxers circle the pavilion in their track-suits greeting fans and supporting their teammates, a group of Mongolians celebrate their boxer’s victory in the semi-finals and pose for photos with their 1993 World Champion, Chinese students wave their mini-flags, and the Russians chant their country’s name to cheer on the fighters who have made it this far in the AIBA World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007.
They are all part of a whirling ethnic mix attending the 11-day international amateur tournament that concludes with finals Saturday at the University of Illinois-Chicago’s UIC Pavilion.
Fans both U.S-born or from overseas chanted in all languages, carrying flags from Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Hungary and Lithuania among others to support their boxers.
A group of Chinese fans congregated in the front row with flags distributed by the Chinese Embassy, who also gave out tickets to Chinese student organizations. A student at University of Illinois-Chicago and activities coordinator for the school’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Yong Xue said that organizations for Chinese students from schools all over the city get together for parties and events.
Americans, said Xue, “don’t organize and get together,” as he noticed a lack of fans for the American boxers Thursday afternoon. However, the “U-S-A” chant came loud and strong later that night when the American boxers had their bouts.
A bronze medalist from the 1993 World Championships, Tsogtjarga Erdenetsogt of Mongolia attended the bouts to cheer on his former team Thursday evening. Erdenetsogt was awarded the “best honored sportsman” of Mongolia on Oct. 25 by the Mongolian President, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, who visited Chicago and encouraged the Mongolian residents to support their boxers.
Erdenetsogt’s wife, Shine Piodor said that a website for the “Chicago Mongol” is how the small (appx. 2,000) Mongolian population in Chicago keeps in touch. Solongo Dashravdan, a fellow supporter for the finalist from Mongolia, Enkhbat Badar-Uugan, said she thinks that the Mongolian fan support was “absolutely… the most wonderful thing for him.”
Chanting their country’s name on the west side of the Pavilion were the Ukrainians. On the west side of the city is a “vibrant” Ukrainian village, where, according to Roman Vazchur, there are four or five former Olympians and world champions from Ukraine.
Vazchur said that the Ukrainian radio and television programs announce each morning the times that Ukrainians will fight, so that they would go and support their athletes.
With eight boxers in the semi-finals, the Russians have loudly supported their athletes as well. However, the fans are not all Russian. Darius Androtas, is a Lithuanian Chicago resident who said that since there aren’t very many Lithuanian fighters left, “we’ve got to cheer for someone.”