“We will put her signed swimming cap in our window display, so that everyone who comes to my house can see it,” said 10-year-old Liu Zhetong, who received the precious gift from China’s Zhang Yufei after her gold medal ceremony in the women’s 50m freestyle event. “This is the first time that I have been […]
“We are not going to celebrate our victory. We have practice in the evening and an early flight tomorrow. Then we go back to swimming,“ joked Italy’s head coach Daniele Bettini after his team’s 13-11 victory over Hungary in the men’s water polo final of the Chengdu FISU World University Games, Tuesday afternoon. A fight […]
Spectators filled every seat in the Shuangliu Sports Centre Gymnasium for the final five badminton events Monday evening.The first match of the evening, in mixed doubles, was claimed 21-15, 21-17 by Ye Hong-Wei and Lee Chia-Hsin against their fellow Chinese Taipei athletes Lee Fang-Chih and Teng Chun Hsun. It was an expected result for the […]
“I may be different in some ways, but just like all the athletes competing in the FISU University Games, we are all striving for the same goal,” said Hsu Le, a 100m hurdler from Chinese Taipei, who is also the first deaf athlete to represent the TPE team at a FISU event. “I am very […]
Italy and Poland had been waiting for Monday night’s men’s volleyball final at Xipu Campus Gymnasium since Day 1 of the Chengdu FISU World University Games. Actually, the European rivals had their eyes on a rematch since the Italians captured the last FISU title on home soil thanks to a five-set win over the Poles […]
Asked before the contest who they thought would win the Chengdu FISU World University Games men’s basketball final, it sounded like a vast majority of fans had the same answer: Brazil. This belief lasted until the final five seconds of the gold-medal duel, when Jonas Buffat missed what would have been a game-winning three-point shot […]
Henry von der Schulenburg (Switzerland) celebrates after winning the men’s singles title “I wouldn’t have gotten into Harvard without tennis,” said men’s singles champion Henry Von Der Schulenburg of Switzerland. “You have to have good grades and SAT scores. But not as high as if you didn’t play sports. That’s why it helped me so […]
To win a water polo tournament you need to gain some know-how. To obtain this kind of knowledge, there are few better sources than a Greek coach with experience at the highest level of this sport. Until a year ago Kostas Chatzidakis had spent his whole coaching career in his homeland. He is most notably […]
