KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘Olympics’

  • Asian Games Torch

    Asian Games Torch

    KazInform has a little map up of when the torch will be where. It arrives in Almaty today and will be sent all around Kazakhstan before arriving in Astana on the 30th of January for the opening ceremonies. The map is in Russian, but it shows the cities of Kazakhstan and the date next to […]

    1/12/11 • (Comments Off on Asian Games Torch)

  • Sports.kz

    Just discovered Sports.kz, a website that covers Kazakh sport, both national and international. Unfortunately it’s in Russian. Some other useful links on that page: RSS feed Asian Games category Newsreader a downloadable desktop app And thanks to this site, I just found the national football team site: Sbornaya.kz Sbornaya is the Russian word for team, […]

    3/24/10 • (Comments Off on Sports.kz)

  • Biathalon? Who Cares?

    Global Voices Online has a report up on the reaction to Kazakhstan’s silver medal. Citing the post on Adam Kesher’s LJ (RUS) about how Kazakhstan seemed to be indifferent to the silver medal we won this year in Vancouver, Global Voices reviews some comments. Is it indifference to our country, indifference to the Winter Olympics, […]

    3/11/10 • (1)

  • Dear Kazakhstan Olympic Commitee

    Dear Kazakhstan Olympic Commitee

    I went to your website to find out more information about Kazakh athletes. I hoped to find some interesting facts about them so I could write about them on my blog. I wanted to try to get an idea of who the stars were and generate some interest about Kazakhstan Winter Olympians in the world. […]

    2/24/10 • (1)

  • First Medal

    First Medal

    Elena Krustaleva took the silver medal Thursday in the women’s 15km biathlon. She had a perfect shooting record and was just a little too slow to beat Tora Berger of Norway, who came in 20.7 seconds ahead. Khrustaleva is from Krasnyorsk, Russia and until recently raced for Russia but Kazakhstan apparently bought her and the […]

    2/21/10 • (1)

  • Ten is Eleven

    Ten is Eleven

    So obviously the big news out of Vancouver today is that Plushenko, coming out of retirement especially to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics, took the silver medal and Evan Lysacek took the gold. Both skated beautifully and while some will complain that Plushenko got cheated, the Russian commentators on Eurosport seemed pretty happy that […]

    2/19/10 • (5)

  • Commentators Are Just Checking Out the Chicks

    In what was likely not an isolated incident, commentators for Russian TV channel Sport, broadcasting over the Internet made some personal comments about Aliya Yussupova, the Kazakh rhythmic gymnast who has a world class record. Apparently these guys thought they were speaking off the record when they said: “Look at this Yussupova. What has she […]

    8/26/08 • (Comments Off on Commentators Are Just Checking Out the Chicks)

  • And Then There Was One

    While Kazakhstan has taken some more medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics since I last blogged, the boxing team upon which many hopes were pinned isn’t performing according to expectations. Of course neither is the US boxing team which went home with one lousy bronze so maybe it’s just a bad moon over China. The […]

    8/23/08 • (Comments Off on And Then There Was One)

  • 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)

  • Wrestlers Not So Lucky but Boxers Keeping the Dream Alive

    Darkhan Bayakhmetov lost his bronze medal match to Belarussian Mikhail Semenov in Greco-Roman wrestling today. He takes 5th place in the 66kg category. Asset Immanbayev also lost his match to Armenia’s Roman Amoyan in the 55kg category of Greco-Roman wrestling, failing to make it to the quarterfinals. Zulfiya Zabirova was in third place when she […]

    8/13/08 • (Comments Off on Wrestlers Not So Lucky but Boxers Keeping the Dream Alive)