Education

Title drought continues

When will TU Delft’s International Sports Day championship title-drought come to an end? Not this year. The university finished second to Unesco-IHE at this year’s event.  

Last month the TU Delft Sports Center hosted the 28th annual International Sports Day. The event was organized by Unesco-IHE Delft and coincided with its 50th anniversary. International students from eight Dutch higher education institutions competed in various sports, ranging from soccer to badminton and running.

Before the first whistle blew, everyone still had the license to dream, but that all changed once the balls began rolling and hopes encountered reality. Hoping to win the ‘silverware’ for the first time since this tournament was started in 1980, TU Delft’s teams . enthusiastically cheered on by many supporters – got off to a great start in the morning’s opening events – especially in basketball, volleyball, badminton and chess.

By lunchtime, TU Delft was atop the leader board, and this supremacy remained unchanged throughout the afternoon’s events, as the supporters continued applauding and injecting verve into TU Delft’s championship title hunt.

The competition ended at 17:00 and was followed by a swinging party at the Unesco-IHE, which was great moment of conviviality, exchanging compliments, sipping drinks and tasting Italian or Indonesian cuisine. Meanwhile, the organizing committee was busy counting the final scores for all competitions.

When the prize awarding ceremony started at 20:00, TU Delft was constantly in top three, amassing prize after prize, and hence increasing the hopes of the teams members and supporters that ultimate victory was theirs.

When it came time to announce the overall 2007 champion, everyone held their breath: the organizing committee spokesperson then announced that TU Delft and Unesco-IHE had finished tied for first place! Nevertheless, since there is but one trophy for the overall champion, the cup was awarded to Unesco-IHE team in a gesture of goodwill, since Unesco-IHE has organized this year’s International Sports Day on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. TU Delft was declared the first runner-up.

Charles F. Sekanyambo, Rwanda, MSc civil engineering.

Last month the TU Delft Sports Center hosted the 28th annual International Sports Day. The event was organized by Unesco-IHE Delft and coincided with its 50th anniversary. International students from eight Dutch higher education institutions competed in various sports, ranging from soccer to badminton and running.

Before the first whistle blew, everyone still had the license to dream, but that all changed once the balls began rolling and hopes encountered reality. Hoping to win the ‘silverware’ for the first time since this tournament was started in 1980, TU Delft’s teams . enthusiastically cheered on by many supporters – got off to a great start in the morning’s opening events – especially in basketball, volleyball, badminton and chess.

By lunchtime, TU Delft was atop the leader board, and this supremacy remained unchanged throughout the afternoon’s events, as the supporters continued applauding and injecting verve into TU Delft’s championship title hunt.

The competition ended at 17:00 and was followed by a swinging party at the Unesco-IHE, which was great moment of conviviality, exchanging compliments, sipping drinks and tasting Italian or Indonesian cuisine. Meanwhile, the organizing committee was busy counting the final scores for all competitions.

When the prize awarding ceremony started at 20:00, TU Delft was constantly in top three, amassing prize after prize, and hence increasing the hopes of the teams members and supporters that ultimate victory was theirs.

When it came time to announce the overall 2007 champion, everyone held their breath: the organizing committee spokesperson then announced that TU Delft and Unesco-IHE had finished tied for first place! Nevertheless, since there is but one trophy for the overall champion, the cup was awarded to Unesco-IHE team in a gesture of goodwill, since Unesco-IHE has organized this year’s International Sports Day on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. TU Delft was declared the first runner-up.

Charles F. Sekanyambo, Rwanda, MSc civil engineering.

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