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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)

• Useful Russian for English Football Fans

  Something a dear friend send me that’s going around the Russian Internets 20 phrases in Russian That Will be of Use to English Football Fans during the Champion League Finals in Moscow. It appears to have originated with Prosports a popular Russian sports journal, but I can’t find it linked there. It’s very funny and […]

  5/23/08 • (Comments Off on Useful Russian for English Football Fans)

• Olympic Torch Redux

  This just in: Nazarbayev will run the first leg of the torch relay. Hopefully that won’t mean that they shut down the route to people who want to watch, which they sometimes do when cool people are involved in things. EDIT: The official route and who is carrying the torch is up. The President doesn’t […]

  4/01/08 • (Comments Off on Olympic Torch Redux)

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  Olympics to Light Almaty On Fire!

  And now for the lighter side of the news: The Olympic Torch will pass through Almaty on 2 April on its way out from Beijing to Istanbul. I wasn’t aware that the torch starts its trip in the host country (after being lit in Greece at Olympia of course) , in this case China, and […]

  3/28/08 • (Comments Off on Olympics to Light Almaty On Fire!)

• Nauryz Nauryz!

  Happy Nauryz! On the 22nd of March will be the vernal equinox, the Persian-Muslim New Year, the Kazakhstan national holiday Nauryz! One of my favorite holidays here because it’s one of the few where they do more than just make a big concert of alternating pop hits and old Kazakh songs. The same songs every […]

  3/20/08 • (Comments Off on Nauryz Nauryz!)

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