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| Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, location of the Universiade. The beautiful Kazan Kremlin is a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
Download a copy of the technical handbook here. This includes all of the technical rules of the competition, who is on the Committee, as well as where you can order your lunchbox if you are an official :0).
Find the main website for the Universiade here, in English, Russian and Tatar. The RGF is also providing an overview of press coverage - click on the link that reads Пресса об Универсиаде.
There is a full list of participants here, although it seems a little bit out of date (for Russia no Mustafina; Stolyarov listed instead of Petrov) and you have to look it up country by country. Start lists are here.
Official live streaming in the English language will be available here. You can see the schedule here, but keep checking because the times do not seem to agree with those on the competition schedule ... You will need to register, but it is free!! The registration seems a little bit clunky, and I have had feedback that users are redirected to all sorts of odd pages, but eventually seem to be remembered by the system ... try and try again!
In addition, there will be live streaming on the Russian site Sportbox - assuming that all territories can access this coverage. And there is a video hub on the Universiade website.
Details of the competition schedules (including warm ups and so on) are to be found here. All times are local to Kazan, and subject to change so check regularly. Details of the competition roster (below) were originally found on the RGF website at the link titled Расписание соревнований and have been amended according to the WAG startlist - thank you Judith Wouters for finding the link!
Afanasyeva, Nabiyeva and Paseka are all starred here, suggesting they will perform two vaults each - if they manage to accomplish this, I cannot remember the last time a Russian team made such a strong statement on this apparatus. I wonder if we will see the unveiling of the Afanar if Ksenia qualifies for the event final?? Otherwise, it all seems as we expected, with Mustafina, Afanasyeva and Nabiyeva going all around, Paseka on vault, and Dementieva on bars, beam and floor ... Fingers crossed.
Sunday July 7th
WAG team, subdivision 1 2.00 pm Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Hong
Kong, China, Slovakia, Chile,
Czech Republic
WAG team, subdivision 2 3.30 pm Mexico, Canada, Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, Croatia, Hungary,
Latvia, Singapore
WAG team, subdivision 3 6.00 pm Germany, Slovenia, Chinese Taipei,
United Kingdom
WAG team, subdivision 4 7.30 pm Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, Russia
WAG team medal ceremony 9.00 pm
Monday July 8th
MAG team, subdivision 1 10.00 am Croatia, Ireland, Mongolia, Belgium,
Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Chile,
Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Denmark,
Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Latvia
MAG team, subdivision 2 11.40 am Norway, Chinese Taipei, Mexico,
Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand
MAG team, subdivision 3 3.00 pm Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary,
Kazakstan, Finland
MAG team, subdivision 4 4.40 pm Switzerland, Brazil, South Korea,
United Kingdom, Germany, France
MAG team, subdivision 5 6.20 pm Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Japan,
China, Romania
MAG team medal ceremony 8.00 pm
Tuesday July 9th
WAG all around 3.00 pm
WAG medal ceremony 4.30 pm
MAG all around 7.00 pm
MAG medal ceremony 8.30 pm
Wednesday July 10th
Apparatus finals :
MAG Floor, Pommel Horse, Rings, WAG Vault, Uneven Bars 3.30 pm
MAG Vault, Parallel Bars, High Bar, WAG Beam, Floor 7.00 pm
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| The stunning Kazan Metro, built specially for the Universiade |
Russia has invested immense sums of money in preparing for these Games, which are central to their overall government strategy of linking sport to tourism, regional infrastructure development and all the cultural and economic legacies associated with staging such mega events. The Universiade is the first of three major sporting events to be staged over the coming years: next year it will be the Winter Olympics in Sochi (and Russia's first modern Formula One Grand Prix), and in 2018 the FIFA World Cup. Government funds, sponsorship moneys and donations from inconceivably wealthy Oligarchs make these sometimes controversial changes possible.
Coming soon will be an article on changes taking place in Moscow and I will be asking the question: will all this big time investment help gymnastics at its grass roots?
But in the meantime, good luck to the Russian team and all those participating at the Universiade! I wish I could be with you ... DAVAI!!
Thank you for the schedule Elizabeth! It is very helpful! The link I gave you is very easy to use. After you register it directs you to a page that says, oops sorry this page cannot be found. I was confused at first, but clicked on the home page and was signed in. However, I am confused about the streaming, since the times do not match. I'm assuming it is going to be a delayed stream.
ReplyDeleteThanks Elizabeth for all of these links, especially those for live streaming! On the Live Sport FISU website, though, I could not find a live streaming link for the Women's All Around Final; I could only find a link for the Men's All Around Final. Do you know if this website will stream the women's all around competition? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI would be surprised if they didn't cover the Women's AA, but this is Russia so things are very unpredictable :-).
ReplyDeleteI will start a thread over at the Facebook page where people can post links to live streaming as the competition unfolds.
PS It looks as though the Sportbox link above is all set to go with a transmission starting at 11 am UK time - this will be Subdivision 1 of the team competition. Whether this transmission is accessible in the UK I won't know until the time of the competition - but it is worth a look, especially as it seems to be a simultaneous transmission, and not delayed, as Kayley suggests the FISU link might be.
ReplyDeleteI had better get my skates on - need to go to the gym before all this kicks off!!!
FISU is not covering the Women's AA. I found a link from Russian TV that is available to everyone. It worked for me. I believe it will cover the AA. http://kaban.tv/rossiya-2-online
ReplyDeleteKaley, many many thanks for this link. It works for me too ...
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