Winter Universiade 2017

[heywoodu 15,141]

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 ). 

[dcro 10,210]

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!

[heywoodu 15,141]

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

[dcro 10,210]

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.

[heywoodu 15,141]

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  

[intoronto 5,641]

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

[heywoodu 15,141]

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

[heywoodu 15,141]

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 

[dcro 10,210]

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/

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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