Over 2,000 athletes are going to revive ancient warfare skills into sports disciplines such as horseback archery and falconry.
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00:00As the Paralympics wrap up in Paris, another global sporting event begins in Astana, the
00:10World Nomad Games.
00:13Athletes use ancient warfare skills of historically nomadic peoples in sports like horse wrestling,
00:21horseback archery, martial arts and falconry, but also compete in cultural and scientific
00:28games.
00:29The aim is to develop and preserve the ethno-cultural movement, which has in host country Kazakhstan
00:37one of its most important cradles.
00:59Over 2,000 athletes and around 90 countries will be there.
01:04The list of participating nations has grown way beyond those with a nomadic heritage.
01:10What's interesting is that we see countries coming, the geography of participating countries
01:16from Australia to Canada, from South Africa to Great Britain, those states that have little
01:23nomadic history in the past.
01:26So meaning that these games are actually going around the world and we see this great interest.
01:32The World Nomad Games take place from Sunday the 8th of September to the 13th of September.