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World Nomad Games Sept 6, 2016 15:15:35 GMT -8

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Hawk Hunting, Goat Carcass Chasing, and Steven Seagal at World Nomad Games, in Photos

Lines of yurts stretch across rolling green hills in rural Kyrgyzstan, full of spectators eager to watch men and women wrestle each other for control over a wooden stick, shoot bows and arrows from horseback, throw bones, and chase each other to try to grab a goat carcass.

Welcome to the second-ever World Nomad Games, a gathering of sportsmen from more than 40 countries who, over the course of this week, will compete in 23 traditional Central Asian sports in Kyrgyzstan. And this year, none other than Steven Seagal, the Russophile martial arts movie star who spends his free time hanging with strongmen dictators across the former Soviet Union, made an appearance at the opening ceremony, riding into the games wearing a traditional Kyrgyz warrior outfit.

“In the modern world, people are forgetting their history, and there is a threat of extinction for traditional cultures,” Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said in an opening ceremony speech over the weekend. “Nomadic civilization is an example of sustainable development, which is what all of humanity is looking for today.”

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acptulsa Platinum Member No tan lines! Posts: 1,495	World Nomad Games Sept 6, 2016 19:21:58 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by acptulsa on Sept 6, 2016 19:21:58 GMT -8 Quiz time! If these games had been held in the U.S, how many laws would have been broken?
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Origanalist Administrator Riff Raff Coordinator Posts: 3,387	World Nomad Games Sept 6, 2016 19:56:22 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Origanalist on Sept 6, 2016 19:56:22 GMT -8 Sept 6, 2016 19:21:58 GMT -8 acptulsa said: Quiz time! If these games had been held in the U.S, how many laws would have been broken? They probably would have called in the National Guard.
	"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

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