Tuesday, August 7 2012
CNN posted a great video highlighting the prowess of the Kazakhstan boxing team at the olympics. They enter these 2012 London games having won 5 boxing gold medals since the Atlanta olympics in 1996, and 13 medals overall. That is an extremely impressive number for what many consider an under the radar boxing program. The Kazakhstan team is very proud of their reputation around the world as a force to be reckon with and they work all year around with a team of dedicated trainers. The most interesting part of the video is, one of their gold medal winning fighters from Beijing in 2008 talks about how the culture and the food help the Kazakhstan athletes. He gives the example of how the team traveled to London with horse meat, and claims that his people have incorporated it into their diets for centuries. That is truly something crazy by our standards here in America, but if it works maybe we should start our fighters on a healthy diet of horse meat... To check out the whole video on CNN: Click Here