GRANADA – Some unexpected fans got the gift of a lifetime after the bronze medal men’s ice hockey match-up between Canada and Czech Republic. Spanish brothers Christian and Aaron Arroyo Salmeron, got to meet their role models. The two fans, 14-year-old Christian, who was dressed head to toe in Canada gear, and 10-year-old […]
GRANADA – Today, 14 February, on Valentine’s Day, the men’s ice hockey tournament come to an end with the golden medal game between Russia and Kazachstan. It was Kazachstan’s second appearance in a row after playing the final in Trentino 2013 and losing against Canada. Russia, which boasted a roster featuring 10 players […]
GRANADA – The 27th Winter Universiade FISU ended this evening with the men’s ice hockey final. Outstanding displays and a rather unusual game since it put together the two nations that will welcome our Winter Games in 2017 and 2019 respectively, i.e., Kazakhstan (Almaty 2017) and Russia (Krasnoyarsk 2019). After a genuine final thriller, Russia […]
GRANADA – There are some 1,200 student-athletes here competing in Granada, Spain. Only 78 are Spanish, meaning the majority comes from abroad. Some from close by, but others have to cross oceans or travel continents to arrive at this southern tip of Spain and Europe. We can assume that those 78 Spanish athletes […]
Volunteer Seongh Jeon (KOR) GRANADA – Seongh Jeon is a young Korean student in International Business. He is here in Granada as an attaché of the Korean men’s ice hockey team. “I love the sport. I practice basketball and running and I have participated in marathons. That’s why I really wanted to participate in this […]
GRANADA – A large delegation representing the 2019 Krasnoyarsk Winter Universiade Organizing Committee met this Friday, 13 February with FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien, First Vice-President Oleg Matytsin, Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond and Director of the Winter Universiade, Milan Augustin. Mr. Edkhal Akbulatov, Mayor of Krasnoyarsk and member of the Organizing Committee of the 29th Winter Universiade […]
GRANADA – Latvia’s Normans Beikmanis has been skating for over 20 years and grows to love it more and more every single day. “I began skating at three-years-old and I started short track at 12-years-old,” he said. “But I quit skating at 15-years-old.” Beikmanis suffered a potential career-ended knee injury that eventually put […]
GRANADA – Today, 12 February, the medal games in the women’s ice hockey competition were played. Japan beat China 3-1 to win the bronze. The gold medal game between Russia and Canada was a genuine thriller final. Both countries played each other in the preliminary round where the Russian beat Canada in a […]
