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• Play-By-Play

  Should have mentioned this last night, but Chris Merriman, who admits to not being a huge football fan, has a bit of a play-by-play of the Kazakhstan-Croatia World Cup qualifying match. Kazakhstan was already out of contention to go to South Africa in 2010, but had Ukraine lost or tied Andorra last night, a Croatian […]

  10/14/09 • (Comments Off on Play-By-Play)

• Boxing Scandal To Be Decided in Rematch

  Beibut Shumenov, an undefeated boxer from Kazakhstan, is widely viewed as a future world champion. At 26 years old, he was undefeated–8 fights and 6 wins by knockout–although he made the decision to turn professional only in 2007. He is also one of the few CIS boxers who was smart enough to found his own […]

  10/10/09 • (1)

• Astana says, “Stay” and Contador says, “Go, go, go.”

  With talk everywhere that Alberto Contador is thinking of leaving Team Astana (See my post, The Dream Team is Over), the Astana Cycling Team Management released a statement this weekend that the two-time Tour de France winner from Spain has one more year left in his contract: In order to clarify some misunderstandings reported in […]

  8/25/09 • (Comments Off on Astana says, “Stay” and Contador says, “Go, go, go.”)

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  The Dream Team is Over

  After Contador’s win at the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong’s third place finish (not to mention Team Astana’s Andres Kloden in sixth place), Team Astana seemed to have demonstrated itself as a cycling power on the world stage. Unfortunately that will all come to an end now. Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will […]

  8/08/09 • (2)

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  Astana Day

  Haven’t been posting lately as I have been on summer break. Look forward to a lot of travelogue posts about my adventures in Big Almaty Lake, Korgalzhino, Burabay, and Aktau. However my vacation began with horses and dzhigits. A few of my favorite shots of the Astana Day celebrations, one of my favorite holidays because […]

  7/29/09 • (1)

• Astana Day Schedule

  Finally tracked down the Schedule of Events for Astana Day in English. My biggest disappointment is that it looks like they have replaced the Kazakh horse sports with a show jumping competition. Seriously, I wait all year to go to the Hippodrome and see the kokpar, the races and of course the kyz kui and […]

  7/01/09 • (Comments Off on Astana Day Schedule)

• Let’s Go KZ! clap-clap-clapclap-clap

  Do they do that in European sports events? Anyway, in case you didn’t know, today at 16:00 GMT or 21:00 Kazakhstan time, England and Kazakhstan will meet in the World Cup qualifiers. If your local station isn’t covering it, or someone else in the house is watching the French Open, Eurosport looks like it will […]

  6/06/09 • (Comments Off on Let’s Go KZ! clap-clap-clapclap-clap)

• Light at the End of the Tunnel

  Team Astana will probably meet the UCI deadline of May 31stand retain its license. However the UCI has requested new guarantees of the team in order to ensure that it stays in the black to the end of the year. UCI threatened Team Astana with revocation of its license after the Kazakh sponsors failed to […]

  5/31/09 • (Comments Off on Light at the End of the Tunnel)

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  Good News and Bad News

  There’s some bad news for Kazakhstan officials who wish to hold on to Team Astana and its stable of super stars. The riders are protesting the fact that staff have not had their salaries paid by wearing faded jerseys in the Giro d’Italia. Specifically, the new jerseys show only faded logos sponsors who have not […]

  5/17/09 • (Comments Off on Good News and Bad News)

• Kazakhstan May Lose Its Team

  Following up on my earlier post about Team Astana’s financial problems, I see that ESPN is reporting that Lance Armstrong’s team may be suspended if they do not meet their financial obligations by the 31 May of this year. Team Astana is funded primarily by state-owned companies under the national holding company, Samruk-Kazyna. However recently […]

  5/13/09 • (1)

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