1 April 2008

Olympic Torch Redux

Filed under: Fun, President - KZBlog @ 10:45 am

This just in: Nazarbayev will run the first leg of the torch relay. Hopefully that won’t mean that they shut down the route to people who want to watch, which they sometimes do when cool people are involved in things.

EDIT: The official route and who is carrying the torch is up. The President doesn’t appear to be on the list. And to answer the question in the comments, I think that occasionally Presidents or high government officials might be there to greet the torch at the airport–as I believe the akim was at Almaty airport last night–but they don’t usually carry it.

EDIT THE SECOND: Nazarbayev did carry the torch. As did the Chinese Ambassador and Rosa Rizimbayeva. Cool.

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  1. ew.. never actually heard of presidents running with the torch.. does it usually happen? or are we unique again

    Comment by Im — 1 April 2008 @ 12:26 pm

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