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• Team Saxo Astana Bank?

  L’Equipe, a French sports website, has an interesting article up. They claim that the CFO of Team Astana wants to merge with Saxo Bank or Liquigas. What’s interesting about this story is that apparently no one else on Team Astana knew anything about this, although L’Equipe claims that Aidar Makhmetov, newly appointed as chief financial […]

  6/23/11 • (Comments Off on Team Saxo Astana Bank?)

• Throw the Kitchen Sink at Kazakhstan

  Just a funny quote from the head of Sri Lanka’s Rugby Selection Committee on an upcoming game with Kazakhstan Asked of the enormity of the task at hand against Kazakhstan at Almaty, Jayasekera said that Sri Lanka would only stand a chance if they were to effectively address the shortcomings displayed against HK. The former […]

  5/23/11 • (Comments Off on Throw the Kitchen Sink at Kazakhstan)

• Billiards is Not Pool

  I finally got coerced into playing billiards the other day. I’ve tried to avoid it after hearing how hard it is and because the whole thing is too confusing. I had always thought billiards was the game with only two or three balls. But it turns out that’s British billiards; Russian billiards is a whole […]

  5/19/11 • (Comments Off on Billiards is Not Pool)

• Vino Shines

  Without international stars Alberto Contador or Lance Armstrong among their ranks, Team Astana hasn’t been getting as much world press for their wins. But Kazakhstan-born star Alexandre Vinokurov has actually been doing his team proud. Maybe because he announced that this will be his last season or maybe because he no longer plays support to […]

  5/07/11 • (Comments Off on Vino Shines)

• Not Much Worse

  4-0. That was the final score of Germany vs. Kazakhstan Saturday. 3 in the first half, including one in the first four minutes and one in the last minute of the first half. In the second half, Germany relaxed and just tried to keep the Kazakhstan side scoreless, although Klose scored one more. As Sports.kz […]

  3/27/11 • (Comments Off on Not Much Worse)

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  Worse Than 3-0?

  Saturday is the big game. Kazakhstan and Germany for the World Cup qualifiers. It’s probably not much of a surprise that the ESPN Preview doesn’t look good for Kazakhstan. So far Kazakhstan hasn’t a won a game in their group (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Belgium and Azerbaijan) and Germany hasn’t lost a game. I was surprised […]

  3/25/11 • (Comments Off on Worse Than 3-0?)

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  Winter Games Opened Yesterday

  The Opening Ceremonies of the 7th Asian Winter Games yesterday went very well. Still waiting for video of the proceedings to go up online somewhere. The ceremony definitely felt reminiscent of the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics opening ceremonies. I guess that giant floor video-screens and pre-recorded clips that tell the history of the nation in […]

  1/31/11 • (6)

• When and Where to See Kazakh Sportsmen?

  Liter.kz has a schedule up of which events Kazakhstani sportsmen will compete in in the Asian Winter Games in Almaty/Astana. The list is in Russian, the Google Translate version is under the cut.

  1/25/11 • (Comments Off on When and Where to See Kazakh Sportsmen?)

• Be Respectful of Others, But Only for Asian Games

  The Organizing Committee of the Asian Winter Games in Kazahstan (which is a Joint stock company interestingly enough–is it supposed to make a profit?) has announced temporary new rules for spectators in stadiums during the Asian Winter Games. I was amused by the fact that the rules are pretty reasonable. Be respectful of others, don’t […]

  1/15/11 • (Comments Off on Be Respectful of Others, But Only for Asian Games)

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  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)

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