The James C Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink will be a focal point when the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games start on 12 January. This iconic venue, in the heart of Lake Placid, has been the centre of the speed skating world in the past having hosted the sport at the 1932 and 1980 […]
A total of 1,443 athletes are registered to compete in the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games, which will start in two weeks. The final list of athletes shows 595 universities from 43 countries have registered competitors. Athletes are nominated by their international university student federations based on performance in each of their sports. […]
Saranac Lake Civic Center will play host to the world’s best university curlers when the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games start on 12 January 2023. However, it may be a painting that highlights the origins of the sport. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter in the 16th century, painted ‘Hunters in the […]
University of Alberta Golden Bears, representing Canada and gold medal winners at Jaca 1981 FISU World University GamesLake Placid has a storied history with the sport of ice hockey as the home to the Miracle on Ice, when in 1980 the United States men’s Olympic team defeated the powerful Soviet Union on their way to […]
The 12-foot, carbon steel cauldron from which the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games symbolic flame will soon shine brightly took up its home in Brewster Park in Lake Placid one month before the opening ceremony. Designed and created by Adirondack Studios from Argyle, New York, this cauldron features top borders that depict the […]
One month from today the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games will get underway, but two years following, Torino will again play host as the FISU Games Winter will be hosted there 13-23 January 2025. In the build up to 2025, the Torino 2025 Organising Committee on Sunday 11 December launched its Ambassadors Programme. […]
The Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games torch relay celebration kicks off on 7 December on the Alfred University campus in Alfred, (New York State, USA). The tour will make 15 stops throughout New York State and Indigenous communities of the St. Regis Mohawk and the Mohawk Community of Kahnawá:ke before culminating in […]
On behalf of the International Fair Play Committee, FISU Acting President Leonz Eder handed over the Special Fair Play Career Diploma to Mr. Guido Graf today in Lucerne. District President of the Department of Health and Social Affairs of the Canton of Lucerne and President of the Organising Committee of Lucerne 2021 Winter […]
