In this photo taken Saturday, April 7, 2012, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov wearing ice hockey garb and holding a hockey stick with his name on it, skates in front of thousands of people at a recently constructed indoor arena in the capital, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Berdymukhamedov ordered state enterprises and departments to create a hockey league. He has in recent months been busily preaching the need for his former Soviet Central Asian nation to become a sporting power and has personally led the way by showing off his active side. (AP Photo)