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According to this article by The Sports Examiner (http://www.thesportsexaminer.com/the-ticker-exclusive-u-s-to-try-for-world-univ-games-in-2027-drama-in-russia-over-drive-to-oust-rusada-head-usopc-bill-now-in-house/), the United States is thinking of bidding for the 2027 Summer Universiade. Nothing has been officially announced, but the Sports Examiner article proposed Raleigh-Durham, Houston, Indianapolis, and Austin as possible cities, each with their own unique pros and cons. Competition for this edition could come from Budapest and potentially other cities. Sandwiched between the 2026 Worl
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As I'm sure you know, the 2023 Winter Universiade will take place in Lake Placid, site of the 1932 and 1980 Olympic Winter Games. And here are two videos from FISU announcing that fact. However, it is little remembered that Lake Placid hosted the Winter Universiade before - in 1972. The games were mostly ignored by the media and public alike as they took place at the exact same time as the XIth Olympic Winter Games were occurring in Sapporo, Japan. The games have since been mostly forgotten about. I recently discovered old issues online of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the local newspaper i
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Kyiv is planning to bid to host the University Games in either 2021 or 2023: http://24-my.info/in-kiev-began-to-prepare-for-the-holding-of-the-world-universiade/ Cities that have already stated intentions to bid for 2021 are Bucharest, Romania and Cali, Colombia.
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https://www.2017.taipei/home Since it's only a couple of weeks to go, I felt we should start a thread already about the upcoming Universiade. This is the biggest sport event to be held ever in Taiwan aka Chinese Taipei (they don't get to host too much things due to their troublesome diplomatic situation so this might be interesting to watch) Venues Taipei Municipal Stadium (25.000) - Athletics - Opening and Closing Ceremonies National Taiwan Sport University Arena - Swimming/Waterpolo Taipei Arena - Basketball University of Taipei Gymnas
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Its going to start on 8 days so I decided to open a thread dedicated to the upcoming event. Logo and Mascot of the games (they reused the wing idea of Incheon though now forming the U for Universiade) Poster The Medals Athletes Village Torch relay undergoing, the relay began at Mudeung National Park on a ceremony Some sneak peaks of the stage. Sadly, it seems the ceremony will go back to the small, simplistic style of the ceremonies before Shenzhen 2011 (no offense but koreans seem to be very stingy when doing ceremonies. All of them except for the 2002 WC and the Seoul olymp
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Seems that Universiades are in trouble again. FISU took away 2013 Winter Universiades to Maribor, Slovenia, and it's looking for another host city/country. It's because crisis: slovenian government decided not to economically sustain the project anymore. http://www.fisu.net/...?idProduit=2157 Do you think Universiade will survive? Does this sporting event still have sense? Or still have sense bi-annually?
