Winter Universiade 2017

[JoshMartini007 2,537]

As a hockey nation China's men's team is weak. They're a division II team (playing in the B group in 2017). Meanwhile Kazakhstan spends its time bouncing between division I and the championship group. Obviously both nations aren't sending their best players, but Kazakhstan would have to send a very weak team (which would be weird considering they are hosts) for China not to get crushed.

[hckošice 14,829]

SCHEDULE

DAY 0

Sunday, January 29th, 2017

(GMT +6)

 

12:30 :  ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - USA vs Russia

 

19:00 :  OPENING CEREMONY

 

[hckošice 14,829]

DAY -1

Saturday 28th January 2017

HIGHLIGHTS ROUND-UP

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Meanwhile it's deep, deep in the Kazakh night (03:00) and the plane from Frankfurt (GER) carrying, among others, Team Brazil (one athlete, one official) has landed at Almaty airport a few minutes ago. That's gonna be a very late arrival before they can finally get to bed...(remember, they've mostly been travelling non-stop since yesterday afternoon already, with a few very short hours of sleep in between). 

 

Oh well, they're in Kazakhstan, let the adventure begin  

Edited January 28, 2017 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Meanwhile it's deep, deep in the Kazakh night (03:00) and the plane from Frankfurt (GER) carrying, among others, Team Brazil (one athlete, one official) has landed at Almaty airport a few minutes ago. That's gonna be a very late arrival before they can finally get to bed...(remember, they've mostly been travelling non-stop since yesterday afternoon already, with a few very short hours of sleep in between).

 

That's just about the same time of the day in which the horses were arriving to Rio Olympics.

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

That's just about the same time of the day in which the horses were arriving to Rio Olympics.

 

That's a bit of unfortunate planning  

 

Meanwhile we're getting close to 5am and no word out of the athletes' village yet...oh boy, I hope Monday's performance isn't gonna suffer too much because of this  

[heywoodu 15,141]

'Official' photos will be available here, cool  

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5d0UBLbsmd8LVRtLTYya3B3WUE

 

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Athletes in the rooms are greeted with a nice big Almaty Photo Guide, a ton of Universiade stuff and....a nice and detailed Coca Cola bottle  

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yes, this means Team Brazil has arrived...it's almost 6am, but they arrived  

[hckošice 14,829]

8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

And yes, this means Team Brazil has arrived...it's almost 6am, but they arrived  

 

Do you know which delegations share the building of Brazil ?

[heywoodu 15,141]

31 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

Do you know which delegations share the building of Brazil ?

No idea yet, they basically arrived, threw down their stuff, sent me some pictures and went to sleep, understandably  

 

I'll definitely ask today though before they're off to the opening ceremony