| Kazakhstan will bid to host a Tour de France stage, Tengrinews reports citing AFP. Nibali's triumph on the Champs Elysees on Sunday concluded an eight year campaign by his Astana Pro Team -- named after the Kazakh capital and funded by the country's sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna -- to get people talking about the world's biggest landlocked nation.
"This has been a very successful project, if you took the mathematics, how many times Astana was named in social media and in newspapers and on TV," said Kairat Kelimbetov, president of Kazakh Cycling, governor of the country's central bank and a former deputy prime minister..............................................Full Article: Source |