The second World Nomad Games started in Kyrgyzstan
Almaty. September 5. Silkroadnews – The opening ceremony of the second World Nomad Games was held on the coast of Issyk-Kul on September 3, KyrTAG writes.
«About a thousand of athletes from 53 countries have confirmed their participation in the games. The events program includes 23 ethnic sports disciplines, including horse racing, Kok-Boru (a form of polo in which two teams battle for control of a decapitated goat carcass goat), er enish (fight on horseback), jirit (on horseback with lances); martial arts, shooting from a traditional bow, as well as intellectual games - Toguz korgool, Owari, bao, mangala and hunting competitions with hunting birds», the publication says.
A new racetrack for 10 thousand seats and a large sports and recreation center was built near Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan's resort capital, to carry out the sport contests and ceremonies of the opening and closing the games.
500 journalists from 35 countries have been accredited to cover the event. Both the local and international channels broadcasted the opening of the games in a live television.
All the visitors can move for free from one object to another on a special shuttle-buses running every 15 minutes from the central bus station of Cholpon-Ata and to Kyrchyn jailoo via all the sports facilities located along the coast.
The World Nomads Game were inititated by the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev in February 2011. The Kyrgyz side proposal has found a broad support among the member states of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States and in 2012 the heads of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey signed a document on the Games within the framework of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States summit.
The World Games have been positioned as a unique platform to strengthen the integration and unity of Turkic-speaking countries and give a significant impetus to the development of ideology based on the traditions of the ancestors and the world community of nomadic culture.
