World Games – The Medal Matches – Tuesday, July 30th 2013
At the World Games the medal games are re-matches. This time it featured Colombia and Canada for Bronze and USA versus Australia for gold. The Bronze began after the three-hour siesta in the afternoon and a TV delay as the international and local broadcasting teams needed time to get everything lined up. Why? Because host team Colombia surprised many by qualifying for the medal round. This game had a little bit of everything as the …
World Games Final Pool Play Results – July 29th and 30th
Lots of opportunities available to start the end of Pool Play as teams kept their spirits high. First game round 2 featured Great Britain versus Japan. After a strong first half and a late 9-7 lead, once again GB faltered as the Japanese defense tightened up. The big hucks failed and Japan wins 13-11. Colombia-USA followed, a good test for Colombia. Could they hang with the rangy, confident and hard-to-read Americans? It’s tough to counter …
The World Games 2013 – Day 1 of the Ultimate competition
Everything you need to know about this tournament could be seen at 8:45 this morning, 15 minutes into the first game, Japan versus Colombia: Outside the stadium a line stretching far down the block was still waiting to get in. On the field, Colombia was scoring goal after goal each one to a roar of the crowd. One got the sense that this was going to be a special day.
The World Games’ Ultimate Competition about to Commence
The sports program for flying disc (known as disco volador in Spanish) at the IWGA World Games in Cali Colombia will commence Sunday July 28 and run for three days, through Tuesday July 30. Ultimate is the featured discipline for the sport, which the international governing body World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) presents in a mixed-gender format. The World Games is the 11-day multi-sport event run by the International World Games Association under the patronage …
Live Broadcast and Streaming of the Ultimate Games of the 2013 IWGA World Games
The Ultimate Games of the 2013 IWGA World Games will be streamed live on th official Broadcast website of CLOC. To access the stream please click here. Please click on "Live Broadcasts" to watch the games. The Chair of the Ultimate Rules Sub-Committee will be providing updates from the sidelines for all games at TWG here: @WFDF_Rules #twgwfdf . The game of the day will be broadcast as Worldfeed on many TV Channels. The official …
WJUC Dublin: Spirit of the Game final rankings published
WFDF today has published today the Spirit of the Game final rankings of the 2012 WFDF World Junior Ultimate Championships which were held in Dublin from 12 to 18 August 2012. The rankings also include the SOTG results for the U17 EYUC tournament. Winners of the SOTG awards were Colombia in the Junior Open division and Germany in the Junior Women division. In U17 EYUC the winners were Switzerland in the U17 Open division and …
WJUC Dublin – Day 6: Semifinals in Junior Open and Women`s divisions – and bronze medals decided
As day six brings the curtain down on a fantastic celebration of Junior Ultimate, at times it looked like we weren’t going to make it. 47 teams, having flown from the far corners of the globe to be part of around 1100 players in four different competitions, have played their hearts out. There have been bumps in the road – there can’t be many tournaments, let alone World Championship events, that can boast that they …
WJUC 2012 Dublin – Day 7: The World Champions are crowned – USA (Junior Open) and Colombia (Junior Women)
The final day of the WFDF 2012 World Junior Ultimate Championships was blessed by sunshine and perfect playing conditions in the Tolka Park Stadium in Dublin. The finals were played for the Junior Open and Junior Women divisions and the World Champions are crowned: USA and Colombia were the finalists in both divisions and glory was distributed equally amongst them: whilst USA took the gold medal in the Junior Open division defeating Colombia 15-10 the …