Asked before the contest who they thought would win the Chengdu FISU World University Games men’s basketball final, it sounded like a vast majority of fans had the same answer: Brazil. This belief lasted until the final five seconds of the gold-medal duel, when Jonas Buffat missed what would have been a game-winning three-point shot […]
Henry von der Schulenburg (Switzerland) celebrates after winning the men’s singles title “I wouldn’t have gotten into Harvard without tennis,” said men’s singles champion Henry Von Der Schulenburg of Switzerland. “You have to have good grades and SAT scores. But not as high as if you didn’t play sports. That’s why it helped me so […]
To win a water polo tournament you need to gain some know-how. To obtain this kind of knowledge, there are few better sources than a Greek coach with experience at the highest level of this sport. Until a year ago Kostas Chatzidakis had spent his whole coaching career in his homeland. He is most notably […]
“I am surprised because we thought that this would be a very tough matchup,” said Cheung Ka Long after he and his teammates dominated France in the men’s foil team final on the last day of fencing at the Chengdu FISU World University Games, Monday. Hong Kong beat the Frenchmen by a very lopsided score […]
This makes its beauty: sport is a source of epic rivalries but also of respect, support, friendship and fair play. In the presence of FISU Acting President Leonz Eder and Secretary General/CEO Éric Saintrond, Charne Elieen Swart (RSA) and Veronica Vancardo (SUI) received today the Fair Play Award of the Chengdu FISU Games for their […]
China celebrating their gold medal women’s volleyball win “Exciting, intense, golden”. This is how China’s Wu Mengjie described the women’s volleyball final win over Japan at the Chengdu FISU World University Games. But let’s turn back the clock a little. 30 August 2003 was the last time the Chinese women’s volleyball team won a FISU […]
The penultimate day of swimming at the Chengdu FISU World University Games saw Poland’s Adela Piskorska set a Games record of 27.84 seconds in the women’s 50m backstroke. Piskorska’s compatriot Paulina Peda, and Anya Mostek of the United States both earned silver medals after touching the wall in 28.48. The 19-year-old winner broke the previous […]
Every year on 7 June, around 13 million Chinese high school seniors sit down for a test that will determine their future. To be admitted into China’s number one post-secondary school, Tsinghua University, students need to score a minimum of 676 out of 750 on the gaokao, the national university entrance exam. Xia waves to […]
