I recently came across a site that has a comic strip artist create a little picture every once in a while. Although some of them seemed to miss my humour somewhat, there were enough in there to hold my interest, and open up each in a new tab. The one currently on display refers to Alexandre Vinokourov, the somewhat disgraced Kazakh Astana cycling team member who was thrown out for blood doping issues. Anyway, once you have check the comic out, browse around the news stories in the region – I picked up a piece on our President again making mention of the planned switch over from Cyrillic to Latin script for the Kazakh written language.
For any over active PPP reviewers, this is a personal post. No money involved, nor was this post requested, just hope to help others interested in the country I live in – Kazakhstan. Thanks.
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Jul 25 2007
Kazakh Cyclist Shames Astana Tour de France Team Out Of Competition
Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov has tested positive for blood doping (the transfusion of another person’s oxygen carrying red blood cells) in the Tour de France. The entire Astana team has now withdrawn from the competition. He has of course requested for a second sample to be tested, but it is incredibly unusual for a second sample to be clear…
At the time of writing this post, his website ( www.alexander-vinokourov.com ) was working, however the news page was unavailable. As far as I can tell, there is a Dutch news snippet regarding the doping allegations on the front page.
[Update]
Now the entire site is down. My guess is that as it is currently a few minutes past the hour, many news programs will have mentioned his name, so a lot of people will have been visiting his site; perhaps the server could not take the strain?