Winter Universiade 2017

[hckošice 16,630]

Winter Universiade 2017

 

Almaty (KAZ) - 29 January 2017 - 8 February 2017

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

 

[dcro 10,211]

Hopefully there will be plenty of live streams on FISU tv. That's the only way for me to get interested.

[hckošice 16,630]

SCHEDULE

DAY -1

Saturday, January 28th, 2017

(GMT +6)

 

12:30 :  ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Slovakia vs Great Britain

 

16:00 :  ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Japan vs Latvia

 

16:30 :  ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - Canada vs China

 

19:30 :  ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Kazakhstan vs China

 

20:00 :  ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - Kazakhstan vs Great Britain

 

[heywoodu 16,465]

Wikipedia lists Madagascar in the nation list. They told me they wanted to go as 'observer nation', but they have basically no money at all and FISU and the Organizing Committee are outright ignoring them and their requests for some sort of help.

 

South Africa is on the list on Wikipedia as well, but they've also answered my email today by saying they won't be there. 

 

Bruna Moura will represent Brazil in cross-country (sadly not in biathlon, but alright). She told me there's one other Brazilian athlete who will be there and she was convinced that it was a speed skater, but I really have no idea who that could be...the guy in Japan and the German/Brazilian guy seem to be too young? 

[dcro 10,211]

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Wikipedia lists Madagascar in the nation list. They told me they wanted to go as 'observer nation', but they have basically no money at all and FISU and the Organizing Committee are outright ignoring them and their requests for some sort of help.

 

South Africa is on the list on Wikipedia as well, but they've also answered my email today by saying they won't be there. 

 

Bruna Moura will represent Brazil in cross-country (sadly not in biathlon, but alright). She told me there's one other Brazilian athlete who will be there and she was convinced that it was a speed skater, but I really have no idea who that could be...the guy in Japan and the German/Brazilian guy seem to be too young? 

 

Any such news about Gambia?

[intoronto 6,907]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Any such news about Gambia?

Gambia has no athletes. THe organizing committee confirmed directly with me. They are just sending a delegation with officials. 

[heywoodu 16,465]

15 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Gambia has no athletes. THe organizing committee confirmed directly with me. They are just sending a delegation with officials. 

Maybe something like what Madagascar was planning, but probably has to forget now. 

[Federer91 3,386]

Excuse my ignorance, but how did GB have ice hockey teams, in the 2 genders no less. Are there really that many nations that refuse to participate in the Universiade? 

[hckošice 16,630]

48 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Excuse my ignorance, but how did GB have ice hockey teams, in the 2 genders no less. Are there really that many nations that refuse to participate in the Universiade? 

 

Good question as I know, there no qualifications, the thing is to have a tournament of max 12 mens teams and 8 womens teams, so they probably just invite the different countries, plus, remember this is about universiade, so it´s not so easy to form a team of students and send them to play a tournament we have a university hockey league including teams from Poland, Austria, Czech republic and Hungary, so we have not problems to creat a team.

[JoshMartini007 2,864]

51 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Excuse my ignorance, but how did GB have ice hockey teams, in the 2 genders no less. Are there really that many nations that refuse to participate in the Universiade? 

 

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.