heywoodu 13,540 Posted January 23, 2017 #11 Share Posted January 23, 2017 9 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said: I’m pretty sure the teams are here through invitation. College teams are also a bit different so using the world ranking is a bit unfair. At the last Winter Universidad the US women’s team failed to reach the semi-final. An unthinkable feat had it been their true team. The Americans and Canadians are always a little bit weird in Universiades. I mean, they've probably got the best students in the world in some sports, yet in smaller sports like cross-country they don't even come close to dreaming of a podium (while their senior athletes are at least 'good'). I remember a few years ago they sent a Division III college volleyball team to represent them...they got absolutely hammered in basically every match (which the bookmakers were to late to realize, which is why I remember it ). If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 23, 2017 #12 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: The Americans and Canadians are always a little bit weird in Universiades. I mean, they've probably got the best students in the world in some sports, yet in smaller sports like cross-country they don't even come close to dreaming of a podium (while their senior athletes are at least 'good'). I remember a few years ago they sent a Division III college volleyball team to represent them...they got absolutely hammered in basically every match (which the bookmakers were to late to realize, which is why I remember it ). I noticed that too. For example at the latest Winter Universiade in 2015, USA's men's relay team in cross-country finished behind Mongolia! #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted January 23, 2017 #13 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Just now, dcro said: I noticed that too. For example at the latest Winter Universiade in 2015, USA's men's relay team in cross-country finished behind Mongolia! Yep The American and Canadian women's cross-country teams for Almaty are just....weak as well. I mean, some of them don't even have any FIS results ever, or one of them only has three results during a week in 2015 in New Zealand..Others are many minutes behind in national FIS races and barely get under 250 FIS points. Same thing for the South Korean team by the way, some of them finished 5+ minutes behind the winner in a national 5-10km race. At least one of the Chinese women has had a somewhat decent finish in a national event, but again, most of them barely even compete and definitely not outside China (unless it's the one who did compete outside China in her career....at the previous Universiade). The names I got so far for the women's cross-country btw (I'm collecting them for obvious reasons, so why not share them ): Bruna Moura BRA Emma Camicioli CAN Shelby Dickey CAN Christel Pichard-Jolicoeur CAN Andrée-Anne Théberge CAN Kyla Vanderzwet CAN Kunduz Abdykadyrova KGZ Jogscha Abderhalden SUI Anja Ilic SRB Bae Min-ju KOR Kim Bo-ra KOR Kim Eun-ji KOR Lee Ji-yun KOR Yoo Dan-bi KOR Helen Cutting USA Sierra Foster USA Sierra Jech USA Meghan Kent USA Emma Malmquist USA Adrienne Sulser USA Yara Thomas USA Zhang Xue CHN Wu Aiting CHN Li Lei CHN Zhao Yuan CHN If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 23, 2017 #14 Share Posted January 23, 2017 3 minutes ago, heywoodu said: The names I got so far for the women's cross-country btw (I'm collecting them for obvious reasons, so why not share them ): Nice. I remember Abdykadyrova's incident from this video. Don't think that Brazilians should worry about her. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted January 23, 2017 #15 Share Posted January 23, 2017 5 minutes ago, dcro said: Nice. I remember Abdykadyrova's incident from this video. Don't think that Brazilians should worry about her. Nope, when I saw her name my first thought was "Cool, if Bruna doesn't do anything weird, she definitely won't finish last" By the way: If I didn't actually see that this was Abdykadyrova, I would absolutely swear this is Gabi's rifle! (not Koukalova, but Almeira Neres) Interesting to see this pattern on someone else's rifle If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,202 Posted January 23, 2017 #16 Share Posted January 23, 2017 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: Maybe something like what Madagascar was planning, but probably has to forget now. Madagascar has an athlete at least. Its bizarre that just a delegation is being sent to the Universiade from a country (Gambia) with no winter sport tradition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted January 23, 2017 #17 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Just now, intoronto said: Madagascar has an athlete at least. Its bizarre that just a delegation is being sent to the Universiade from a country (Gambia) with no winter sport tradition Well, it may help organize something, who knows. At least the few officials who are going there will get some hands-on experience with some of the winter sports and I wouldn't be surprised if the Universiade has some things like lectures and stuff about organizing sports in a nation. A start has to be made somewhere for these nations, and if you don't have athletes, this is better than nothing If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted January 24, 2017 #18 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I don't know how it works for every country, but it looks like Eurosport is going to show a lot of cross-country, biathlon and alpine skiing live If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 24, 2017 #19 Share Posted January 24, 2017 27 minutes ago, heywoodu said: I don't know how it works for every country, but it looks like Eurosport is going to show a lot of cross-country, biathlon and alpine skiing live FISU tv will apparently live stream everything. http://www.livefisu.tv/ #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,217 Posted January 24, 2017 Author #20 Share Posted January 24, 2017 TEAM SLOVAKIA 42 Athletes (34 M + 8 W) 6 Sports Ice Hockey 23 + 0 Biathlon 3 + 3 Cross-Country Skiing 2 + 2 Snowboarding 1 + 0 Alpine Skiing 3 + 2 Figure Skating 2 + 1 NAME SURNAME SPORT Samuel Košut ice hockey Peter Putec ice hockey Juraj Halo ice hockey Radoslav Gábor ice hockey Martin Uhnák ice hockey Edmund Piačka ice hockey Adam Kasanický ice hockey Peter Gápa ice hockey Jakub Loydl ice hockey René Štrauch ice hockey Peter Bustin ice hockey Samuel Ivanič ice hockey Tomáš Hluch ice hockey Denis Nociar ice hockey Michal Kabáč ice hockey Martin Indrych ice hockey Andrej Sucharda ice hockey Ivan Jakubík ice hockey Jozef Tomčák ice hockey Nikolas Ketner ice hockey Jan Zlocha ice hockey Ivan Brezniak ice hockey Michal Pichnarčík ice hockey Anna Netíková biathlon Andrea Hôrčiková biathlon Alžbeta Majdišová biathlon Michal Kubaliak biathlon Henrich Lonský biathlon Ondrej Kosztolanyi biathlon Miroslav Šulek cross country Rudolf Michalovský cross country Eva Segečová cross country Aneta Smerčiaková cross country Matej Bačo snowboard Matej Falát alpine skiing Martin Hyška alpine skiing Barbara Kantorová alpine skiing Katarína Miklošová alpine skiing Henrich Katrenič alpine skiing Michael Neuman figure skating Marco Klepoch figure skating Miroslava Hriňáková figure skating heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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