Summer Games

If the construction style of a city is unique, then thousands of cities under construction have thousands of different appearances. Have you ever seen Chengdu in these ways? Six reporters from six media outlets– together with live streaming on five prominent Chinese channels – brought a multi-dimensional and multi-perspective view of Chengdu. While some captured […]

The Moscow 1973 Summer Universiade turned out to be the breath of fresh air the international sporting community was sorely in need of, with the world still mourning from the Munich Massacre a year earlier at the Olympic Games where 11 members of the Israeli team were killed by Palestinian terrorists.   The seventh Summer […]

It’s almost fate the way gold medal swimmer Kylie Masse made the Canadian team that competed at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea.   In the April trials, top performers would represent Canada at the Pan-Am Games, which were being held in Toronto. The other swimmers would go to the Universiade. Masse, who […]

The World University Games Cauldron, at home on the University of Turin campus. The ignition of the 31st Summer World University Games Flame will take place here in Northern Italy before traversing its way to Chengdu, China next summer.   LAUSANNE, Switzerland – FISU today welcomed the announcement of revised dates for Tokyo 2020 and […]

LAUSANNE – Despite the ongoing global situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, the German bid to host the 2025 Summer FISU World University Games moves ahead, surefootedly. A meeting was held on schedule, albeit virtually, between the FISU leadership, the FISU Summer Games department and all stakeholders in the German bid including the German University Sports Federation […]

Take a trip back through 60 years of Universiade history. The 11th stop on the FISU history tour takes us back to where the Universiade got its start in the Northern Italy for the Torino 1970 Summer Universiade The sixth Universiade was originally scheduled to be held in the summer of 1969 in Lisbon, but […]

CHENGDU – While the athletes’ village for the Chengdu 2021 FISU Summer World University Games might still be a construction zone at the moment, the venue is shaping up to script as a world-class venue befitting its home on the Chengdu University campus.   The World University Games Village – known affectionately in the western […]

Universiade 100m record holder and Gwanju 2015 gold medalist Akani Simbine celebrates with Henricho Bruintjes after his win at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Image courtesy of Andrew Cornaga/BackpagePix. Former Universiade 100m gold medalist turned Olympic hopeful Akani Simbine opened his season with a world-leading 9.91 seconds in the event at the Athletics Gauteng North Championships […]