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• Olympics Update

  Back to the 2008 Olympic Games and in the couple of days I skipped, Kazakhstan picked up 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. In total Kazakhstan now has: 2 silver in weightlifting and 1 bronze; 2 bronze in wrestling and 1 silver in judo. Just last night, Mariya Grabovetskaya took the bronze in weightlifting, 75+ […]

  8/14/08 • (Comments Off on Olympics Update)

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  Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal

  I must have misunderstood something when I wrote that Kazakh wrestler Tenizbayev still had a match to go to win the bronze Nurbykhyt Tenizbayev won Kazakhstan’s second medal in the Beijing Olympics, taking a bronze in Greco-Roman Wrestling, 60 kg category, sharing it with Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan. I miswrote that the two would face […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal)

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  She Did It!

  Update on my last post on Olympic results. Irina Nekrassova is the first Kazakhstan athelete to win a medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games! Losing to North Korean Pak Hyon-suk by only one kilogram total! She set the bar high in the snatch, lifting 110kg, 4 kg more than Pak. Nekrassova then went on […]

  8/12/08 • (1)

• Olympics Update: Boxing, Wrestling and Weightlifting

  Kazakhstan’s boxers continue to lead the hope for a medal. While in other events, Kazakhstan’s athletes have already finished empty-handed, the boxers are still in the ring and pounding away. As I reported before, Bakhityar Aratayev is still in the final 16 and will have his next match on Aug 16 against Matvey Korobov, the […]

  8/12/08 • (2)

• Results for 12 August

  I missed one boxer in my last update. Mirat Sarsembayev, Kazakhstan’s entry in the flyweight category (51kg) made it to the final 16 beating Polish Rafal Kaczor. He next faces Russian Georgy Balakshin. And while Evgeni Ryzhkov took 4th place in preliminary heats of the 200 meter breaststroke, that wasn’t enough to move on. But […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Results for 12 August)

• Olympic Results for Kazakhstan-9th Aug

  You can check out the Olympics at Gazeta.kz for coverage in Russian, but they aren’t providing a solid and comprehensive list of how Kazakhstan does every day at the Olympics. So I’m going to try to do that here. Any commenters who correct my mistakes or add information will be greatly rewarded. In boxing, Bakhtiyar […]

  8/09/08 • (Comments Off on Olympic Results for Kazakhstan-9th Aug)

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  Kazakhstan’s Olympic Team Shows Bright Side

  Last night was of course the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing. For a live blogging of the event, check out the New York Times coverage. You will note that they commented about Kazakhstan, “Kazakhstan has a surprisingly large team, perhaps amplified by the fact that the women are wearing day-glo orange skirts.” […]

  8/09/08 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan’s Olympic Team Shows Bright Side)

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  See? Kazakhs Do Have a Sense of Humor

  Perhaps some think that Borat can get away with mocking Kazakhstan because it is not a particularly powerful country and because it is pretty remote from the US and the UK, where Sascha Baron Cohen does most of his filming. But when Mr. Cohen was spotted by a world champion in boxing from Kazakhstan, things […]

  5/26/08 • (1)

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