At the tournament, he defeated eventual 2012 Olympic silver medalist Nicolás García and Tommy Mollet.
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Albert Azaryan was originally intended to bear the flag of Armenia at the 2012 Olympics, but the decision was substantiated due to his age and the honor was passed onto Yeremyan instead.
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Yeremyan next lost the bronze medal match because of controversial scoring to Lutalo Muhammad of the host nation Great Britain in a fight where many of Yeremyan kicks weren't counted and many of Muhammad's shouldn't have been.