hckošice 13,258 Posted January 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Winter Universiade 2017 Almaty (KAZ) - 29 January 2017 - 8 February 2017 Totallympics Results Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 23, 2017 #2 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Hopefully there will be plenty of live streams on FISU tv. That's the only way for me to get interested. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,258 Posted January 23, 2017 Author #3 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,557 Posted January 23, 2017 #4 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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? 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 #5 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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? #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,242 Posted January 23, 2017 #6 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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 and dcro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,557 Posted January 23, 2017 #7 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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. 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...
Federer91 2,140 Posted January 23, 2017 #8 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,258 Posted January 23, 2017 Author #9 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshMartini007 2,211 Posted January 23, 2017 #10 Share Posted January 23, 2017 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. hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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