Arsen Nersisyan was 22 at the time of the Vancouver Olympics and was making his Olympic debut.[7] On 23 February, he failed to finish the first run of the giant slalom.[8] On 27 February, he participated in the slalom, but after skiing a first run time of 1 minute and 5 seconds, he was disqualified from the competition for "improper gate movement".[9][10] He said he was disqualified "because coming out of the starting gate, my skies parted."[9]Ani-Matilda Serebrakian was 21 years old at the time of these Games, and was also making her first Olympics appearance.[11] On 24 February, in challenging weather conditions, she did not finish the first leg of the giant slalom.[12] Two days later, she was disqualified from the Women's slalom, reportedly for using skis that fell outside of the allowed size tolerances.[13]
Kristine Khachatryan was 20 years old at the time of the Games, while Sergey Mikayelyan was 17; both were making their first Olympic appearances.[14][15] Mikayelyan would later go on to represent Armenia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[14] O n 15 February, Khachatryan competed in the women's 10 kilometre freestyle event, finishing in a time of 23 minutes and 17 seconds, which put her in 75th place out of 77 classified finishers.[16] That same day, Mikayelyan skied the men's 15 kilometre freestyle, finishing in a time of 37 minutes and 59 seconds, which was Armenia's best finish of the games; 70th place out of 95 finishers.[17]
