The International University Sports Federation’s (FISU) Executive Committee yesterday approved a Taipei City request to add inline skating and martial arts to the events at the 2017 Universiade.
The 12-day international sporting competition for college students is to be one of the largest events Taipei has ever held.
According to the FISU, it is second in size only to the Olympic Games.
The competition is composed of 14 obligatory events, such as basketball and tennis, as well as discretionary events proposed by the host city. The addition of inline skating and martial arts brings the number of accepted events proposed by Taipei to seven.
Both inline skating and martial arts include 14 individual events, the Taipei Department of Sports said.
“With the addition of the two new events, the number of gold medals Taiwan should be able to win is set to increase from our original estimate of 19 to 26,” Taipei City Government spokesman Chang Chi-chiang (張其強) said. “Given the result of the past several Universiades, our gold medal count should be in the top five.”
He added that given the Taiwan team’s home advantage, there was a chance that their medal count could be in the top three.
In related news, at yesterday’s meeting the FISU agreed to add billiards as a demonstration event, which would not count toward nations’ medal count. Taipei’s Department of Sports said it would try to add traditional martial arts as a demonstration event.
Related events were included in the application for martial arts, the department said.
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