Horse-loving president reportedly takes tumble

President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov

The horse-loving president of Turkmenistan has reportedly taken a fall from his mountain next his win inwards an $11 meg race inwards the key Asian nation.

However, it seems Turkmen regime get got gone to considerable lengths to conceal the mishap, from which it appears 55-year-old President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov suffered fiddling to a greater extent than than dented pride.

Official race footage does non include the autumn and, to date, at that topographic point get got been no accounts of the fall inwards the nation’s press.

The fall, on the dirt rail inwards the hippodrome inwards Ashgabat, reportedly occurred simply later on the president had won the race, which was staged to promote the dearest national Equus caballus breed, the Akhal-Teke.

The Associated Press reported that it had obtained video footage purporting to demo the president’s fall.

The Equus caballus got upwards chop-chop amongst a slight limp, spell the president lay nevertheless for several seconds, equally several dozen men inwards suits rushed to his aid.

All domestic broadcasting inwards the field of 5 meg people is state-run, in addition to newspapers are either state-owned or heavily supervised.

The nation tidings means TDH said of Sunday’s race: “The audience greeted President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, who finished starting fourth dimension — demonstrating swell skills of Equus caballus riding, the volition to win, firmness in addition to courage — amongst a tempest of applause.”

 

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