Congratulations Contador and Golubev!
As everyone knows by now, Alberto Contador won the Tour de France! It was a great race between him and Andy Schleck. And teammate Alexandre Vinokourov won the 13th stage, so it was a great Tour de France for Kazakhstan! Also, for all the talk about how Armstrong was 38 years old and therefore we couldn’t expect a great performance from him, Vinokourov is 36 and he came in 16th overall! Not bad.
In other Kazakhstan sports news, Andrey Golubev recently won the ATP Hamburg tennis tournament, beating Davydenko who won it last year and was seeded at #1. Personally I think that our athletes are the best way to promote the brand image of Kazakhstan. Granted, we sort of bought Contador and Golubev, but our own Kazakhstany trainers and athletes and managers were part of that victory and hopefully, these champions are teaching our own boys how to win.