South Korea has entered the bidding to host the 2027 Summer World
University Games after cities in Chungcheong Province confirmed they
had come together to launch a campaign.
Rhine-Ruhr and Turin confirmed as 2025 World University Games hosts Saturday, 15 May 2021
Rhine-Ruhr and Turin have been confirmed as hosts of the 2025 World University Games by the International University Sport Federation (FISU) today.
Rhine-Ruhr was named as the host of the 2025 Summer World University Games.
Duisburg, which hosted the Summer Universiade in 1989 and the World Games in 2005, will be among the cities hosting competition.
Düsseldorf, Essen, Bochum and Krefeld will also host events at the student sport competition.
Turin will stage the 2025 Winter World University Games, a move confirmed following a similarly positive visit to the Italian city earlier this month.
Chengdu 2021 technical operations centre officially opens Saturday, 1 May 2021
The technical operations centre for the International University Sports Federation (FISU) Chengdu 2021 Summer World University Games has opened, providing operations support for the event.
A launching ceremony was recently held, which ushers in a test period for the centre prior to the Games.
The office building covers 1,150 square metres over three floors.
The chief operation centre is set to be housed on the first floor - which has had a large screen installed to monitor a variety of areas including competition monitoring, wireless command, network communications and network security.
On the second floor will be a competition video studio and competition command centre, while the third floor is the integrated test laboratory.
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