(WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT)
(DANIYAR YELEUSSINOV)
(2013 WELTERWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION)
I've just arrived in Kazakhstan.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union,
the Kazakhstan boxing team has
tallied an impressive 17 medals
in 20 years.
For a landlocked nation roughly the size of Western Europe,
it's understandable that the Kazakh people
have relied on the horse for centuries.
But what might surprise you
is that 55,000 tonnes of horse meat
is consumed every year in Kazakhstan.
Even the country's elite boxers attribute in part their success
to the native cuisine,
which includes large quantities of horse meat
and horse milk.
I'm here to explore how a country
with a population of only 17 million people
built an international boxing powerhouse,
and why the country's most revered animal,
the Kazakh horse,
might be the secret ingredient.
(FEED THE FLAME)
(ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN)
Imagine who you'll fight in the future.
Imagine him and fight.
Impose your initiative.
Under coach Aitzhanov,
the Kazakh boxing team has won
at least one gold medal
in every Olympics since 1996.
And they continue to dominate the sport.
I'm here to find out why.
This is a lot of food.
Do you think the traditional Kazakh diet
played a role in making your boxers so strong,
so fast, so sharp?
We Kazakhs do not keep any diet.
Of course it is crucial to eat the right foods.
Good quality foods.
We don't eat just anything.
We eat foods that give you strength.
The number one food in our cuisine is, of course,
horse meat.
So that's number one.
The horse is the cleanest animal.
It eats the cleanest grass.
My name is Aliya,
I am from Astana,
And I am the dietician of Kazakhstan Boxing Federation.
Do you think that the boxers' diet
is part of the reason for the boxers' success?
I think, yeah, it's... Yes.
Horses, they grow in open air,
and eat just herbs, in mountains.
That's why their meat's so healthy.
Horse fat, it's in the middle of animal and vegetable fat.
Horses have a special structure of their muscles.
That's why their meat is so lean,
and their meat have a lot of haemoglobin and iron.
What's the difference between horse meat and cow beef?
Horse meat is digested eight times faster than beef.
So I'll get all those grams of protein in three hours
instead of waiting 20 hours.
Yes.
Wow.
Why do you like coaching boxing?
Once I was a boxer too,
and I had dreams and ambitions as well,
but now I am a coach,
and now I am helping other boxers become champions.
The Kazakh boxing team has won at least one Olympic gold
in every summer Olympics since 1996.
How are you so successful?
There's a history to Kazakh boxing.
Besides that,
Kazakhstan is also
the ninth largest country in the world.
This means that our ancestors made a lot of effort
to maintain this large territory.
So this strength, this stamina,
this courage has been given to the next generation
through blood.
Do you have a special bond with Daniyar?
He's the team's captain.
He's a very talented boxer as well.
Of course, that is why he is like a right hand for me.
He's ranked number one in the world right now,
he's favoured to win in the Olympics,
do you think he'll win gold?
He's preparing for that.
Preparing to get that.
(DANIYAR YELEUSSINOV)
(2013 WELTERWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION)
I started boxing after seeing the 2000 Olympic Games,
when Bekzat Sattarkhanov and Yermakhan Ibraimov
became Olympic champions.
Becoming an Olympic champion has been my dream ever since.
How does your life change if you win gold?
I guess there would be great changes for the better.
I'd become a national hero of Kazakhstan.
Like all our gold medallists in boxing did.
It'd be a satisfaction for me, too,
the fact that I'd set a goal and reached it.
(YEREMENTAU, KAZAKHSTAN)
I'm at a roadside stop here in Yerementau, Kazakhstan,
about to meet a horse breeder named Daulet.
He's been kind enough to invite me
to his massive steppe farm to see what life is like out here,
and also witness how he raises thousands of pristine horses.
- Salem. - Salam alaikum.
Daulet? Yes, nice to meet you.
Welcome to Kazakhstan.
Kazakh people, all of the time,
have horses.
That horses give for us meat,
milk,
it is our transport.
So the horses, for Kazakh peoples,
is the most important animal.
When you say Kazakh,
in your mind comes horse.
When you say horse,
your mind comes Kazakh.
The horse is our culture.
The price for one horses in Kazakhstan about...
$1,000.
- Wow. - Yes.
Do you think anyone's ever stolen horses from you?
Ah, of course, in Kazakhstan, it's popular.
- Yeah? - To rustle,
to steal the horse.
But if you want to take, come and try.
Have you ever suspected someone of doing it?
Of course. Of course.
What happened to them?
- Not so good things. - Not so good things?
Yes.
- Do you love them? - Oh, of course.
So you don't want to hurt them?
Yes.
- Does that stop you at all? - Yes.
It does?
But, you know...
..Kazakh people like horses,
and they like eating horses.
Are you going to watch the Kazakhstani team
at the Olympics this year, in Rio?
Yes, of course.
Wake up very early in the morning.
Forget about work,
go to watch the fight.
Do you think that the horse meat,
and the horse milk,
and the tradition of eating horses
contributes to the boxers being so strong?
I think so, because how I tell you,
for example, our cowboys...
..they take just little piece of horse meat,
and this meat give a lot of energy,
everything that he needed.
- There, there... - Which one?
- The mare? - Yes.
It looks wonderful.
Are you ready to slaughter your first horse?
Uh, yeah, I guess so.
They're bringing the horses together
to catch one of them for slaughter.
I think he got one!
They just pulled her head west, and...
our man here has the knife ready to cut the throat.
It's important to say,
"I am sorry, but it's not your problem..."
- "It's ours." - Yes.
"It's ours, but we needed the food so, sorry."
Is she suffering right now?
She has some stress at the moment.
Stress, yes.
So we must move quickly.
- Move quickly, OK. - Yes.
How are you feeling?
- You feel... OK? - OK. Yeah.
It's very quick.
Yes.
Doesn't bother you?
- No. - No.
Everyone knows how to do everything.
- Yes. - How to cut it,
- skin it, gut it. - Yes.
Chop it up, separate it... Everybody knows.
Yes, of course, of course.
I think there's a lot more respect
in this way of killing and eating this animal
that just gave its life for you.
Something actually really kind of beautiful and respectful
about watching Daulet and his family get in a circle
around this horse, and saying, "Thank you."
I think that put me at ease,
in terms of... how I felt about it.
But then they sliced open the gut
and that kind of...
That's when the squeamy stomach started.
Now we're about to drink some salmal,
which is horse milk. Fresh horse milk.
Fresh horse milk.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- How? - Wow.
- You like it? - Yeah.
- Cool! - Thank you.
It's so sweet.
Yes, you can taste the grasses.
- Yeah. - The grass that she eat.
Yeah. And this is?
- This is kumis. - It's fermented.
- So there's some alcohol? OK. - Yes. Yes.
I like the salmal a lot better,
but this is really interesting.
Specific. Kumis is specific.
Yeah, it's like milk with apple cider vinegar in it.
It's kind of hard to drink, it's like...
..a shot of sour bitterness in your mouth.
It's helping for stomach, for your, how you say...
- Your respiratory system? - Your respiratory system,
- for everything, so... - OK.
Drink it!
This is a beshbarmak,
the most important meal for Kazakhs.
Beshbarmak means five fingers.
You must eat by hand.
Ah.
And I want to present you brother, Koshara.
- Kurcha? - Koshara.
- Karshara? - Ko-sh-ra.
- Kar-shra? - Ko-sha-ra, ra!
- Kosh-ra? - Ra!
- Ra. - Ra.
- Ra. - Koshara.
Nice to meet you.
Koshara, this is Paul.
Paul.
This is kazy, this is the ribs.
It's very important how much fat.
Next, this piece we give for the most important guest.
This is shuzhuk. Shuzhuk, traditional Kazakh sausage.
Take it, you must eat it.
- Together with fat. - Together.
- Yes! - OK.
- It's important. - OK.
Eat it together. Taste it.
Wow.
- It like melts in your mouth. - Yes!
- It's buttery. - Yes.
- It's delicious. - Yes.
- Start to understand Kazakh? - I do.
- I could eat this a lot. - Yeah.
Yeah, it's a treat to get to taste it this fresh.
Yes.
Organic without feedlots, with everything.
Just on the...
This horse ran on the pasture, eat just on the grass.
- For Kazakhstan. - For Kazakhstan.
The Kazakh horse is a prized possession,
and as such its meat is sourced, butchered,
and sold as ethically as possible.
Kazakh meat is never frozen,
so the time between slaughter and consumption
is relatively quick.
Before the horse meat can be sold on the market,
it undergoes a thorough, detailed inspection process.
Very carefully, the sample is tested
for any disease or radiation.
Then the horse meat is stamped with approval
by the head of quality control,
before finally being able to sell for profit
here, in one of the most reputable meat markets
in Astana.
We're at a meat market right now,
waiting on Daniyar to come pick out which cuts of meat
we're going to have for lunch,
and, uh,
everyone is so cheery and friendly.
(DANIYAR YELEUSSINOV)
(2013 WELTERWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION)
- Hey, Paul. How are you? - What's up, man?
- How are you doing? - Good, you?
Yeah, yeah! Thanks for inviting me to have lunch.
We are cooking beshbarmak. Let's go over there.
- Beshbarmak? - Beshbarmak.
- Beshbarmak, OK. - BESH-barmak.
- Ah, besh barmak. - Yeah.
One kilogram of meat costs 1,800,
I'll give you one for 1,700...
Your discount is quite small,
why don't you give us a bigger one?
- 1,600 tenge then, OK? - OK.
You come any day, I'll give a discount.
Welcome.
- My house. - Yeah?
Are they fighters?
- This one's a fighter. - Yeah?
Show us our kicks, Abilyok.
Whoa!
One more time.
Oooh! This guy is strong!
- Wow. - His father is strong.
Heavyweight!
He's a professional in California.
This is my father and mama.
I saw you yesterday at the gym.
My collection...
- Oh, wow. - Yeah.
This is the collection of trophies and medals
that Daniyar has won.
He's spent his whole life competing...
Not competing, winning.
From when he was 15 years old,
he was already a boxing champion.
There's only one missing.
The one from the Olympics.
(GALIYA YELEUSSINOV DANIYAR'S MOTHER)
Did Daniyar cry a lot when he was a baby?
No, no.
No? Stoic, strong, tough.
(ALINA AITENOVA DANIYAR'S WIFE)
- It smells amazing. - Fat.
It's the fat that gives it the flavour, yeah.
Kurt...
This is a Kazakh national dish as well.
Then we have baursaks.
And irimschik.
We have irimschik, steamed.
To prove that the food is not poisoned,
the host should try it first.
(MARAT YELEUSSINOV DANIYAR'S FATHER)
You are a celebrity, a world champion.
How does it feel to have your son represent Kazakhstan
at the Olympics?
Of course, I'm very happy, for raising a son like this.
For raising him a sportsman.
For he is going to hold our flag.
For making our people known to the world,
I'm happy. I feel that I'm happy.
What would it mean for your family, and Kazakhstan,
to win gold?
It would be our common victory for the parents who raised me,
my family who was near me...
It wouldn't be my sole victory,
but the victory of my family, my people.
It will be our common happiness.
As members of the boxing community told me,
the key to their success is a combination of factors.
Their strong national pride that roots deep,
the nutritional value of their diet,
and their total devotion to the sport they love.
For centuries, nomads depended on their horses
for transportation, food and survival.
The horse is the fundamental tool they needed
to defend themselves, and preserve their lands.
Kazakhstan's elite boxers possess an ancient spirit
of tenacity and will that drives their success.
Like the powerful horses that roam the region,
the Kazakh boxers embed the same fighting spirit,
muscular power,
and dominant strength.
This unity between man and beast remains unparalleled
in any other culture.
(BOXING. MEN'S WELTERWEIGHT)
(DANIYAR YELEUSSINOV)
(WINNER BY POINTS)
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