FISU Opening Ceremonies
Cape Breton University will have three representatives among the 387 members of Team Canada that will participate in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Chinese Taipei on August 19.
August 18, 2017
From left to right: Team Canada Men's Soccer Player Sandro Rajkovic, Women's Basketball Head Coach Fabian McKenzie, Women's Basketball Player Alison Keough.
TAIPEI CITY, Chinese Taipei– Cape Breton University will have three representatives among the 387 members of Team Canada that will participate in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Chinese Taipei on August 19.
The Opening Ceremonies will welcome over 11,000 student-athletes and staff from more than 140 countries at 7 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EST), August 19 at the B-01 Taipei Stadium. The ceremony will be webcasted live on livestream.com/fisu and at 8 p.m. Eastern time on the CBC website.
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About the 2017 Summer Universiade
The Summer Universiade is a biennial international multi-sport event open to competitors who are at least 17 and less than 28 years of age as of January 1 in the year of the Games. Participants must be full-time students at a post-secondary institution (university, college, CEGEP) or have graduated from a post-secondary institution in the year preceding the event.
The 2017 Summer Universiade will feature 14 compulsory sports and seven optional sports. Compulsory sports: athletics, basketball, fencing, football (soccer), artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, diving, water polo, tennis, volleyball, judo, table tennis, and Taekwondo. Optional sports: archery, badminton, baseball, golf, roller sports, weightlifting, and wushu.