Delegations of sportsmen participating in the Worldwide Winter Universiade in Almaty are beginning to arrive in Almaty.
Among early arrivals at the Almaty international airport for the Winter Universiade 2017 are Chinese and Japanese sportsmen. The Chinese delegation is one of the numerous teams and hence will be arriving in Almaty in few groups. The men's and women's national ice hockey teams and alpine skiers came as the first group of Chinese sportsmen.
The sportsmen were met by a crowd of Chinese fans comprising students who study in Almaty
"We expect high results from Chinese sportsmen and wish them successful performance. We will provide support at all competitions. Almaty is prepared for the sportsmen and all the participants from other countries will like it. The Universiade is a very big sporting event for Kazakhstan and I am confident that everything will be held at top level. May the strongest win!" said a fan of the Chinese team Chzhen Lili.
At the Winter Universiade 2015 China took fifth place in the team's scorings winning five golden and four bronze medals. We should add that the Chinese team will have 119 athletes competing. It is only Russia and Kazakhstan that outnumber it. It should be noted that the ice hockey tournament at the Winter Universiade 2017 will commence on 28 January.
Today the Japan's national team of 62 athletes has arrived in Almaty. We need to remind that all in all, Japan will be represented by 110 sportsmen on its national team nearly in all kinds of sports, except biathlon and freestyle.
