LAUSANNE – This October, women’s ice hockey will make history as the NWHL will become operational as the first full professional ice hockey league for women. The NWHL stands for National Women’s Hockey League and is a modest start of what might become the female’s equivalent of North America’s NHL, the biggest and most famous […]
LAUSANNE – Yesterday evening, 12 June, Mrs. Zauresh Amanzholova, the Vice-Mayor of Almaty, and Mr. Ilya Urazakov, Director General of the International events in Almaty and Director of the 2017 WU, visited the FISU HQ in Lausanne at the occasion of the presentation of their bid to the IOC for the 2022 Olympic […]
ALMATY – On 23 May, the ‘International Olympic Day’ in Almaty was celebrated with a 12 km bike ride with the departure at the International Ski Jumping Complex ‘Sunkar’ and the arrival at the Central Stadium. The activity was an organisation of the ‘Management of International Sport Projects in Almaty’, which runs the […]
LAUSANNE – In the frame of the attribution of the 2021 Winter Universiade, FISU Secretary General/CEO Eric Saintrond travelled to Lucerne, the Capital of the Canton of Lucerne. A meeting was organised with Guido Graf, Governor of the Canton of Lucerne and Head of the Department of Health and Social Affairs .FISU Secretary General/CEO […]
KRASNOYARSK – On 6 March, Victor Tolokonsky, the Governor of the region had a meeting with the members of the FISU International Technical Committee concerning the preparation and delivery of the 29th Winter Universiade in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The meeting was attended by regional government members, the regional Legislative Assembly Speaker Alexander Uss, Krasnoyarsk […]
KRASNOYARSK – Today, 5 March, the concept of the Universiade Village was presented to representatives of FISU on the campus of the Federal University of Siberia, as part of the inspection visit of the FISU International Technical Committee for the Winter Universiade. As explained by Eugene Vaganov, the rector of the Siberian Federal University, engineers […]
KRANOYARSK – On March 2, the FISU Winter Universiade International Technical Committee arrived in Krasnoyarsk in order to evaluate technical preparation of the venues, exactly 4 years before the Universiade 2019. The delegation consists of 18 people, headed by Oleg Matytsin, FISU First Vice President, Eric Saintrond, FISU General Secretary / CEO and Roger Roth, […]
MOSCOW – The Universiade, held in Granada, Spain, and Strbske Pleso and Osrblie, Slovakia, brought together 2,440 athletes from 42 countries. Russia’s team came top in total medal count with 56 medals, including 20 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze. After the triumphal winning, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the Russian athletes, […]
