Members of the Kyrgyz National Team practiced with their eagles before competing in kusbegilik –hunting with birds of prey– at the 5th World Nomad Games held in Astana, Kazakhstan.(Still from video by ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- How to find a thousand komuz players and gather them all in one place? Such is the type of unusual demand placed on organizers of the World Nomad Games, a now decade-old ...

The first-ever World Nomad Games took place in Kyrgyzstan, September 9-14. In horse wrestling (pictured), two opponents try to pull each other off their mounts. Kyrgyzstan took home the gold medal in ...

Two bare-chested men on horseback wrestle. The goal is to pull your opponent off the horse so a part of his body touches the ground. Three dogs chase a dummy clad in a fox or hare skin to see who's ...

Astana, Kazakhstan, is a city of the vast, wide-open steppe, born from the imagination of people who have no limitations of space. Buildings are thrown across the land like giant dice, ignoring ...

A team of horsemen from the American West traveled over 6,000 miles to Astana, Kazakhstan, to compete in the 5th World Nomad Games. They played kokpar and kok boru, the national sports of Kazakhstan ...

CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan — The American team that played a brutal version of polo at the World Nomad Games does not expect the sport to get picked up by the Olympics any time soon. “We use a dead goat, ...