Career
After the court passed decision to imprison the perpetrators their friends, mainly wrestlers and relatives destroyed the court hall and blocked the central Rustaveli Avenue of Tbilisi. Riot police was deployed to the streets first time since the ‘rose revolution’ and soon police dispersed the demonstration.1 The arrest of the wrestlers resulted into the protest of other sportsmen. Some of them even refused to take part in preparatory training for the World Championship in wrestling.
Let the government officials wrestle instead of us”.2.