Nursultan Nazarbayev and Kazakhstan's national Olympics team. Photo by Danial Okassov©
Nazarbayev met with the members of Kazakhstan's national Olympic team, Tengrinews.kz reports. "We believe that you will show a real Kazakhstan sport character. I think that you feel your responsibility. As the whole Kazakhstan is behind you and there is a chance to prove that the state is taking care of you not in vain and your trainings are not useless, as it is the utmost achievement for a sportsman. I don’t think that I need to say anything to motivate you, as you are already well-spirited,“ Nazarbayev told the sportsmen before their flight to Great Britain. "I am sure that Kazakhstan’s national team will do everything possible and even impossible to bring honor to their country. For us, the sportsmen who think about the coming Olympic games, it is very important to know that these is nothing impossible for you if you do your best and believe in yourself. In the last games our team was in the top 30 of the world’s best sport teams. We have to prove in London that this success was not accidental,“ Olympics champion Ilya Ilyin said on behalf of the whole team. The state coach of Kazakhstan national weightlifting team Aleksey Ni said that Kazakhstan’s national weightlifting team is a „combination of experience and youth: it contains four sportsmen and all of them are stars“. He assured the President that he will do his best to get Kazakhstan weightlifters into top 3 best sportsmen after Russia and China. "But it is possible that we will give them hell as well,“ he added. Nazarbayev replied that he knew many of the team’s sportsmen from the Beijing Olympics, where the President went to support Kazakhstan athletes. He did not rule out the possibility that he would provide the team with his personal support at the London Olympics: "I will possibly manage to attend some of the tournaments. I see that your are all ready and are spoiling for the fight,“ the President encouraged Kazakhstan's Olympic team. 114 sportsmen will represent Kazakhstan at the London Olympics.
Nazarbayev met with the members of Kazakhstan's national Olympic team, Tengrinews.kz reports.
"We believe that you will show a real Kazakhstan sport character. I think that you feel your responsibility. As the whole Kazakhstan is behind you and there is a chance to prove that the state is taking care of you not in vain and your trainings are not useless, as it is the utmost achievement for a sportsman. I don’t think that I need to say anything to motivate you, as you are already well-spirited,“ Nazarbayev told the sportsmen before their flight to Great Britain.
"I am sure that Kazakhstan’s national team will do everything possible and even impossible to bring honor to their country. For us, the sportsmen who think about the coming Olympic games, it is very important to know that these is nothing impossible for you if you do your best and believe in yourself. In the last games our team was in the top 30 of the world’s best sport teams. We have to prove in London that this success was not accidental,“ Olympics champion Ilya Ilyin said on behalf of the whole team.
The state coach of Kazakhstan national weightlifting team Aleksey Ni said that Kazakhstan’s national weightlifting team is a „combination of experience and youth: it contains four sportsmen and all of them are stars“. He assured the President that he will do his best to get Kazakhstan weightlifters into top 3 best sportsmen after Russia and China. "But it is possible that we will give them hell as well,“ he added.
Nazarbayev replied that he knew many of the team’s sportsmen from the Beijing Olympics, where the President went to support Kazakhstan athletes. He did not rule out the possibility that he would provide the team with his personal support at the London Olympics: "I will possibly manage to attend some of the tournaments. I see that your are all ready and are spoiling for the fight,“ the President encouraged Kazakhstan's Olympic team.
114 sportsmen will represent Kazakhstan at the London Olympics.