The Torch Relay of the Torino 2025 FISU World University Games Winter arrives in Brussels at the beginning of the European Week of Sport #BEACTIVE
The Torino 2025 FISU World University Games Winter are finally being presented to the world with the start of the international Torch Relay.
Leaving Torino last 20 September, the torch arrived in Brussels on Monday 23 September at the European Parliament, where it was welcomed by its Vice-President, Sabine Verheyen, at the beginning of the European Week of Sport #BEACTIVE, an initiative of the European Commission to promote sport and physical activity by raising public awareness of the importance of an active lifestyle for all
The Spanish hockey player Marina Gancedo was also present at the meeting.
The Torch Relay stage was created thanks to the valuable collaboration of the EucA (European University College Association), the Committee’s partner in promoting the event and the values of sport through its network of universities and colleges.
The protocol of the World University Games Flame Relay, conceived under the banner of
sustainability, is divided into three phases: International, National, and Piemontese. The stages will be held on university campuses and in places of cultural and touristic interest.
The relay of the international phase, which started today, 23 September, in Brussels, will continue in Rabat, Morocco, where Torino and Rhein-Ruhr (host of the the FISU Games Summer 2025) will celebrate the passing of the torch at the FISU Executive Committee on 26 and 27 September. The torch will then return to Italy, passing from FISU to FederCUSI in Rome, where a virtual flash mob will be organised with all the national University Sport Centres (CUS), represented by 20 student-athletes and former torchbearers from all over the country. From Rome, the torch will land in New York on 14 October to take part in the Columbus Day parade with the Italian Government and the representatives of Piemont’s Region. The institutional stops of the Torchlight will then continue with the Lausanne date scheduled for 22 October at the University and the headquarters of the International University Sports Federation FISU.
The tour will return to Italy with stops in Trento on 29 October, Milan on 4 November and Caivano and Salerno (organizers of the 2026 European University Games) on 8 and 9 November, before reaching the main university venues in Piemonte in November and the host venues in December
Finally, on 13 January 2025, the Torch will return to Turin for the Opening Ceremony that will mark the start of the XXXII FISU World University Games Winter.
BIO - Marina Gancedo, from Madrid, is a hockey player at a national level. She studies Industrial Engineering at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and is currently an Erasmus student in Louvain la Neuve (BE). With her team she won several national and international competitions, as, among others in Spain, Portugal, Canada and The Netherlands.
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