6. Medeo. This town is only 15km away from Almaty, where you will encounter a charming valley known as Medea. Here you will find the most unique and largest speed skating rink in the whole world ...

The first thing you'll notice about the Medeu Alpine Ice Rink is that it's gigantic. Located in the mountains near Almaty, a city in southeastern Kazakhstan, Medeu is the highest-elevation rink in ...

Medeo has seen many world records in all the speed skating distances from 1951 through the 1980s: 500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters, 3000 meters, 5000 meters and the 10000 meters.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev carried the Olympic flame as the first torchbearer, starting up a 20-kilometer relay on Wednesday through Almaty, the first stopover of 2008 Games ...