GWANGJU – When Edwin Moses was a young athlete, he didn’t know anything about the procedures of doping controls. But that has changed. The two-time American 400m hurdles Olympic Gold medallist has had many doping controls in his career and quickly became familiar with the process. Today the 59-year-old is working as Chair of WADA’s […]
GWANGJU – “The first thing I asked the doctor when I knew that I am diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer was: Am I going to die?” That was how Gabrielle Lapointe, the Canadian Football player told her story about her being diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer when she was 18 years old. Gabrielle talked after her […]
GWANGJU – Gwangju lives now a phenomenal sport environment in which also several meetings are carried out and decisions are taken. Emiliano Ojea, President of the Argentine University Sports Federation (FeDUA), through the South American University Sports Confederation (COSUD) made the proposal to get Argentina as host of the South American University Games and […]
GWANGJU – They have to take on Hungary first to get to the bronze medal match, but Switzerland are quite confident of finding their way to some prized metal in handball. Delegate and handball coach Michael Suter, a former Olympian more than 20 years ago in the aforementioned sport, says the side is ready […]
GWANGJU – Martin Schweizer is an athlete who seems to be very different from other swimmers. It is surprising fact, to know that before the competition he normally swim less distances. Meanwhile other athletes prefer to add kilometres at the training sessions. It doesn’t mean that he works less. It is only his […]
GWANGJU – The 2015 FISU Gender Equality round table heralded one of the important events and issues in sports. This initiative which was introduced to help aid better involvement of women in FISU, might not have yielded the immediate desired results but the members of this committee will keep going until it achieves […]
GWANGJU – The third seminar offered by the FISU to athletes and officials had the purpose of raising awareness amongst students and their coaches on the anti-doping code of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). WADA Education Manager Tony Cunningham spoke about the dangers of doping, the duties of an athlete and the joint […]
GWANGJU – Sports is a passion for many but it is a true devotion for Chloe Henry, who is a 28 year-old Belgian student of Masters in Sports Mental Preparation and Performance Enhancement at Blaise Pascal. She started gymnastics from the age of four and continued it for 16 years till she was 20. […]
