With several thousand competitors and more than 100,000 spectators, the World Nomad Games in Astana, Kazakhstan has got off to a great start. Athletes from more than 80 nations are competing in archery, horse sports and wrestling, as well as intellectual games, such as toguz kumalak to win the top prizes. Here’s a few pics from the kokpar competition in which teams of riders attempt to pick up a (not real) goat carcass and drop it into a large container at one end of the competition area. Not many other rules, really, in this very physical game. This match was between Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The Kyrgyz won by a good margin. More soon.