ALMATY/ASHGABAT, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan threw alavish ceremony for its record-breaking Olympic athletes onFriday while Turkmenistan fired its sports minister in areflection of the contrasting fortunes of the former SovietCentral Asian states at the London Games. Kazakhstan's seven gold medal winners waved to crowds fromopen-topped limousines on a parade through the futuristiccapital Astana before meeting President Nursultan Nazarbayev,who has ruled the oil-rich republic for more than two decades. ...
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