What do you do if you’d like to use sport to be just as obnoxious and nationalistic as everyone else in international competition?
… but your nation is really a loose connection of nomadic tribes without a unified history, shared culture, or official state borders?
The world Nomad Games were held this year in Kyrgyzstan, in an event dedicated to celebrate the traditions of the nomadic peoples, form a more united region, and compete in events even stranger and more pointless than speed walking.
The games featured Er Enish, which is wrestling on horsemen, Ordo, which appears to be spelling out the name of the game in goat bones, and the even-more-bizarre than dwarf-tossing; Kok Baru… ‘basketgoat on horses’.
In heartening evidence that the world’s people are more alike than they are different, the Krygz government has hailed the event as a resounding success, while peoples from other regions noted that the Kyygz displays were too extravagant, that the event cost too much money, and that there weren’t enough toilets.
Here's a film made by the only US competitors, American peace corps volunteers.
