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Harbin IBC Ready for WU

Winter Games 12 February 2009

Located in the Heilongjiang Radio and TV Broadcasting Center, 1 km from Harbin OC Office Building and 2 km from Victories Hotel, the FISU Headquarters, the Main IBC for the Harbin 24th Winter Universiade covers an area of 1,000 m². It is equipped with a TV signal control system which receives signals from all competition […]

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FISU Staff Sets Up Temporary HQ in Harbin

Winter Games 11 February 2009

Today, February 11th, the FISU Staff arrived in Harbin, China, host city for the 24th Winter Universiade. The FISU Staff members will set up a temporary FISU Headquarters’ Office in the Victories Hotel in Harbin for the duration of the Winter Universiade. Sub-offices are organized in the Yabuli and Maoershan ski resorts as well. The […]

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Delegates 2015 WU Bidding City Visit FISU HQ

Winter Games 29 January 2009

Today, January 29th, two members of the Bidding Committee for the 2015 Granada Winter Universiade visited the FISU Headquarters in Brussels. Alvaro Gijon and Eduardo Valenzuela from Granada, Spain met with FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond and FISU Director for the Winter Universiade Milan Augustin for a working session. Alvaro Gijon & Eduardo Valenzuela of the […]

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FISU HQ Gets Ready for Harbin

Winter Games 21 January 2009

    Temperatures are rising at the FISU Headquarters in Brussels as the FISU Staff is preparing for the Winter Universiade in Harbin, China. This always involves a partial move of the FISU Office to the host city where a temporary FISU HQ is set up. Once again this is the case for the 24th […]

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Harbin MPC Ready!

Winter Games 21 January 2009

The Main Press Centre (MPC) was officially opened at the New Paris Hotel on January 18 and will serve as the headquarters for registered WU national and international writers and photographers well as the headquarter for Media & Publicity Department of Harbin OC during the games period. The MPC includes 10 rooms of different sizes […]

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2013 WU City Hosts Student Winter Festival

Winter Games 21 January 2009

Last December SUSA, the Slovenian FISU member association, hosted the Winter Festival of Student Sport. The event was staged on mount Pohorje in Maribor, the alpine venue for the 2013 Winter Universiade. Besides the national university championships in alpine skiing and snowboarding, university employees could become acquainted with the skiing competition and an extensive entertainment […]

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2009 WU Harbin: Medal Design

Winter Games 21 January 2009

With a little more than a month to go before the Opening Ceremony of the 24th Winter Universiade in Harbin, China, we already raise a corner of the veil by showing you the design of the medals at stake. The athletes will no doubt be very eager to take these gems back home! The medals […]

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2009 WU Harbin: Update

Winter Games 20 January 2009

Torch Relay After a 6-day relay through 5 cities, the sacred flame for Harbin 24th WU came back to the beautiful Ice City Harbin — the last leg of the whole relay. There were altogether 352 torchbearers from Harbin universities and social walks taking part in the 13.85 km relay. Zhang Xiaolian Executive Vice-President of […]