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Olympic Channel will live stream more than 100 hours of coverage from Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade

Winter Games 27 February 2019

MADRID – The Olympic Channel presents more than 100 hours of LIVE streaming coverage of the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade, which takes place from 2 to 12 March in the heart of Siberia. Coverage from Krasnoyarsk, Russia begins on 2 March at 13:20 UTC with the Opening Ceremony and will be available worldwide at olympicchannel.com and its mobile apps.   […]

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Home away from home: Teams checking into U-Village

Winter Games 26 February 2019

  KRASNOYARSK — Sitting just below both the snowboard and freestyle ski competition venues and the cerulean blue Siberian spring sky, the first student-athletes of the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade began checking into their accommodations and filling their plates at the dining hall at the Universiade Village.   The first athlete to check into the […]

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Czech' out Ski Orienteering at Krasnoyarsk 2019

Winter Games 25 February 2019

“It was always my dream make it to the Olympics and the Universiade is something very similar,” says Markéta Firešová (above), a member of the Czech Ski Orienteering contingent at Krasnoyarsk 2019. She believes the Universiade is a stepping stone, as Ski Orienteering is not yet part of the Winter Olympics programme.   In fact, […]

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US Hockey teams cool as ice going into Krasnoyarsk

Winter Games 25 February 2019

The U.S. women’s Ice-Hockey team that will compete at Winter Universiade 2019 includes four players who were part of the bronze medal winning team in Almaty 2017. Forwards Kathleen Ash, Britt Levasseur, Maddie Wolsmann and blueliner Kelsey Jaeckle – who happens to be the reigning American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) ‘Player of the Year’ – will lead the field. Picture […]

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Figure Skaters, movie stars & students: Kati & Tim

Winter Games 25 February 2019

When the German University Sports Director Thorsten Hütsch says he expects ‘three to five medals’ in Krasnoyarsk, he also mentions a few names he’s counting on. Among the 24 German athletes who will compete at the Winter Universiade 2019 are the Ice Dance duo of Katharina Müller and Tim Dieck, who finished just off the podium […]

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Pioneering Chinese Snowboarder in Krasnoyarsk

Winter Games 22 February 2019

If you think China is not really at the forefront when it comes to snow sports, you’re not the only one. Ask Tianle ‘Alan’ Li, who is part of the Chinese contingent heading to Krasnoyarsk for the Winter Universiade 2019.   His college classmates find it difficult to understand why he spends so much of […]

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Can the Austrians dominate Alpine Skiing again?

Winter Games 19 February 2019

Alpine Skiing holds a special place in the Winter Universiade, as it was this discipline that saw the first medal ever awarded in Winter Universiade history. This was back in 1960 in the mountain village of Chamonix, heart of the French Alps.   It was there, skiing on home snow just below the jagged and […]