Opening and Closing ceremony will (usually) be full crowd attendance.
You better make it quick while it lasted.
Ironically, the actual games/matches will rarely be watched other than few people.
World Games are competition for non-Olympic sports, lacrosse, in-line hockey, tug-o-war, korfball or American football are some examples.
Deaflympics is for the deaf, because they can’t play in Paralympics. Considering China getting host of 2008 Summer Olympic, and non-existent winter sports in Taiwan (aside from few ice hockey blips), there is unlikely to have any other world scale sport event in Taiwan in near future.
Seems it was going too well for some, so they need to “spice it up”…
Campaigners against pension reform were coy yesterday when asked about planned protests outside Universiade events, while rebutting Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) comments that protests would cause the nation to lose face.
“Gentle protests to show the international community that our government has acted inappropriately should not have a negative influence on our international image,” National Federation of Teachers’ Unions director-general Huang Yao-nan (黃耀南) said, adding that he and other teachers would attend and watch Universiade events next month, which is to be the largest international sporting event ever hosted by Taiwan.
I do not know what is worse: teh careless automatic mechanical Control +F substitution, or the englishee. I was wondering why nothing about Universiade crossed our desks… Double fruta, what a lousy job!
If anyone here was involved in that disaster…
EDIT:
Yang Ching-tang (楊景棠), a spokesman for the Aug. 19-30 Taipei Universiade, also confirmed that the FISU has made changes to the guide, and said that all English manuals related to the Universiade have to be reviewed by the FISU before publication
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Really? I know they are not natives either but they saw that and said nothing?
Moreover, I think even the Chinese must have been horrible to end up with such Englishee.
I know it doesn’t make sense, but any official publication has to follow the IOC rules on names. Crazy, yes, but Taiwan cannot host the games otherwise.
I live in the northern part of ‘the island of Chinese Taipei’. How do the people living in the Central or Southern parts of the island of Chinese Taipei feel about living on ‘the island of Chinese Taipei?’
An non-political-geographical thought. Isn’t it gonna be a bit hot to play sports outside in the soaring heat? I’m thinking of football(soccer) games.
I’m so tired of all this bullshit. They shouldn’t have bid for this stupid UniversiAIDS. A waste of money and a hotbed for more corruption, as if there wasn’t enough already.
