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• Joppy Replaces Braehmer, Gets KO

  After withdrew from the 8 Jan match up against Shumenov, Goossen wasted no time finding a replacement: American, Joppy, 40 years old, 39-6 and widely considered to be past his prime. If fans before were questioning how a 27 year-old like Shumenov gets to be champion so fast, then just as many were wondering how […]

  1/09/11 • (Comments Off on Joppy Replaces Braehmer, Gets KO)

• Good News and Bad News in the Asian Games

  Those of us living in Kazakhstan may be forgiven for being a bit confused. So much noise has been being made about the Winter Games which start in January here in Astana and Almaty, that I didn’t realize there was a summer component to the games. Which inexplicably are happening now in China. Kazakhstan has […]

  11/23/10 • (Comments Off on Good News and Bad News in the Asian Games)

• Davis Cup Videos

  First set, Golubev cleans out Lammer. Warming Up Sunday for the second match by Chris Merriman

  9/20/10 • (1)

• ITP Considers Renaming it the Andre Cup

  Kazakhstan beat Switzerland 5-0 in the Davis Cup World Group playoffs this weekend, dropping only 2 sets in 5 matches. Andre Golubev was the star of the playoff, beating Marco Chiudinelli in 3 straight sets on Friday. Then he lead the doubles team with Yuri Schukin on Saturday to another straight sets victory over Yves […]

  9/19/10 • (Comments Off on ITP Considers Renaming it the Andre Cup)

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  Controversial and Ambitious

  A couple of articles came out recently about Beibut Shumenov, Kazakhstan’s boxing champion. In an interview with Fight Hype, Gabriel Campillo says he was robbed of victory over Shumenov in the title fight in Las Vegas and wants a rematch. Both the Spanish boxer and the interviewer seem to agree that Campillo clearly won the […]

  8/31/10 • (Comments Off on Controversial and Ambitious)

• Contador Is Leaving. Menchov is Coming?

  On the 29th of July, Contador is leaving Team Astana citing problems with equipment. Can’t find the article now, but his agent claims that among other things the TV in the Astana car was broken on the day Schlek broke his chain, meaning Contador didn’t know what was going on. This might have led him […]

  8/03/10 • (2)

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  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 […]

  7/27/10 • (Comments Off on Congratulations Contador and Golubev!)

• Octopus Is Economic Threat

  According to The Daily Telegraph and Kazakhstan’s Liter, the Kazakhstan Association of Bookmakers blames Paul the Octopus for a bad take from this year’s World Cup. Out of 10 billion tenge (almost $67 million) put down on World Cup matches in Kazakhstan, bookmakers only made 150 million tenge profit ($1 million), or 1.5%. They had […]

  7/21/10 • (Comments Off on Octopus Is Economic Threat)

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  Shumenov is the Champion my friends

  As the WBA denies Campillo’s request for a rematch, Beibut Shumenov has become the light heavyweight champion of the world! But what a long strange controversial trip it was.

  4/02/10 • (4)

• 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)

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