Winter Games

  LAGO DI TESERO – The sport of biathlon originates from Norway, where soldiers used it as an alternative training exercise in the military; European countries have traditionally been the most successful participants. It may, therefore, seem surprising that Chinese Taipei has two athletes competing in this discipline, Jian-Cheng Fu and Yao-Yi Wang. Chinese Taipei […]

    RSA Figure Skater Kim Falconer   TRENTO – South Africa: deserts, safaris and… figure skating? It is not, perhaps, the first sport that comes to mind when thinking of South Africa. For skater Kim Falconer, however, it has been a passion since childhood. So how does a South African start figure skating? Kim […]

  Andrej Segec teamed with his sister Eva to compete in the cross-country mixed sprint  LAGO DI TESERO – There were 40 teams vying for a place in the Cross-country sprint final Sunday afternoon. However, only one pair were brother and sister. Slovakia’s Andrej Segec and Eva Segecova teamed up at the 2013 Winter Universiade […]

   Team Italy & Team USA commemorating Mandela prior to their game in Canazei TRENTINO – The 2013 Winter Universiade Trentino commemorated the great figure of Nelson Mandela on the day of his funeral, on the field of play of all 10 competition venues. An extract from the opening ceremony message of the President of […]

    TRENTINO – The Universiade is famously a breeding ground for Olympians, and is often a competition in which student-Olympians also compete. Milanko Petrovic of Serbia, gold medallist today in the Men’s biathlon 10km sprint, will compete in Sochi. So too will the Russian women’s curling team, who, but for one player, have come […]

    FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien (at Cavalese Ice Arena) is delighted with how the 2013 Winter Universiade is going so far   CAVALESE – The 2013 Winter Universiade is only four days old, but FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien couldn’t be happier with how the games are going so far. “They are going as good […]

  Struan Tonnar (right) has been thoroughly impressed with the magnitude of the 2013 Winter Universiade  CANAZEI – When Struan Tonnar made the Great Britain men’s ice hockey team, nothing prepared him for what he saw upon arriving at the 2013 Winter Universiade. “It’s second to none really,” he said. “I was totally taken back […]