Governmental Representatives and Mayors of 5 cities and villages, together with OC members and the FISU Evaluation Committee for 2015 WU At the last day of the Granada evaluation visit, Alvaro Gijon, a former Olympic participant and four times cross country skiing competitor at the Winter Universiade in Jacca, Muju, Poprad and Zakopane, presented […]
At the second day of their inspection visit in Granada and Sierra Nevada, the FISU Evaluation Committee members Leonz Eder, Hassan Chikh, Marian Dymalski, Oleg Matytsin and Roger Roth learned more about the candidature of Granada. The candidate city created the slogan “One City, One University, One Mountain”. The candidature is mainly supported and […]
The FISU EvalCom 2015 WU (Marian Dymalski, Oleg Matytsin, Roger Roth, Hassan Chikh and Chairman Leonz Eder) at the Official reception in the “Carmen de la Victoria” Palace with José Torres Hurtado, Mayor of Granada; Francisco Gonzalez Lodeiro, Granada Uni The FISU Evaluation Commission for the 2015 Winter Universiade, led by FISU Assessor Leonz […]
IIHF Council Member Ernest Aljancic opened the tournament along with Minister of Health Dr Recep Akdag, the Major of Erzurum Ahmet Küçükler and the Governor of Erzurum Sami Bulut. Photo: TBHF Erzurum, the host city for the 25th Winter Universiade in 2011 is hosting a test event in its first finished ice hockey venue, […]
What a Happy Technical Chair! Was there a more happy man Saturday morning in the Harbin Universiade than our Biathlon Technical Chair Ondrej Rybar? We are not writing about the fact he could be happy about the way biathlon events were perfectly run by the IBU Delegate Ubaldo Pruckner and himself. We are just talking […]
After an opening in full ‘grandeur’ last February 18th, the hopes and expectations were high and everybody expected the hosts would surpass themselves with the Closing Ceremony. And they did! After the FISU protocol of closing the games and passing on the FISU flag to the next host of the Winter Universiade, i.e. […]
The Men’s 30 km classic, mass start All the competitions ended today in Yabuli and the delegations are already busy with their departure. This will mark the end of their fantastic “Chinese experience”. All the athletes and organisers felt a bit sad this morning.But anyway, the show must go on, and we had a […]
Medal Podium Big Air Kazuhiro Kokubo reaches the skyWho else than the Japanese star Kazuhiro Kokubo could win the last snowboard event of the Universiade program, the so called Big Air. We have already said everything about this rider when he won the title two days ago in the half pipe competition. But do not […]
