GWANGJU – Navigating any country where you don’t speak the language can be tricky. Fortunately at the Gwangju Universiade there are 20,000 volunteers standing at the ready to assist you. Easily recognized by their yellow multi-colored jackets, you can find them on nearly every street color in Gwangju and stationed at every […]
GWANGJU – The expression time flies like an arrow is mostly true. Arrows wobble, but the time it takes for them to hit a target is only a moment. Having been in the beautiful city of Gwangju for a week, I’m still wondering where all the incredible moments I have experienced have gone. They […]
GWANGJU – It’s hardly raining during the Korean summer but when it does, rain is the wrong expression for what is making its way down to the ground. I’ve experienced two monsoons during my time at the Gwangju Summer Universiade 2015. Both of them were refreshing in so many different ways. The first […]
GWANGJU – “She didn`t gain the reputation as the best junior right wing handballer that easy.” Says Anna Vyakhireva (RUS)`s coach. Anna or as she likes her friends to call her ‘Anya’, was born on the 13th of March, 1995, in Volgograd, Russia. She comes from a humble labor family, both of her parents […]
Gwangju – Uganda has been participating in the Universiade since 1973. To date, athletes from Uganda have won various medals for outstanding performances. For the first time in the history of the Universiade, Uganda brings a female basketball team to compete in the women’s tournament. The delegation of Uganda for the 28th Summer […]
GWANGJU – The Jordanian delegation which consists of 31 athletes and officials has very high hopes on winning medals at this Universiade. “We are training as hard as we can so that we can ensure a place in the top three, and get not less than 4 medals this year”, says Dr Khalil Elhaj, […]
Mr. Cha and his brother GWANGJU – With the slogan ‘the Soul of Korea’, Jeong-yeon Cha, a co-operator of Gwangju Universiade Organization Committee and a publisher of ‘Art Guide’, a publishing company, started to exhibit mountain photos at a corner of the Athletes’ Village. During the Universiade, Cha devotes himself to show Korean culture […]
GWANGJU– Playing tennis for Giuliana Olmos is simple, representing a country is not. Her father is from Mexico, yet was born in her mothers home country of Austria. “At the age of two my parents moved to the United States where I grew up in California,” said Olmos. “Because of my parents nationality and […]
