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Medal First, then on the net
This year’s Universiade Belgrade 2009 was characterized by good communication between the participants and competitors and their families and friends throughout the world. The information system in the Sports Village in New Belgrade was established and maintained by Telekom Srbija.
Universiade – Serbia’s Feat and Triumph
At the ceremonial conference, attended by members of Organizing and Executive Committees, representatives of public companies, sponsors, media partners and Universiade employees, the 25th Summer Universiade has closed down.

25TH UNIVERSIADE OFFICIALLY CLOSED IN BELGRADE ARENA
After receiving many compliments on their organization, hosts of the anniversary Games won hearts of spectators in Belgrade Arena with youthful closing ceremony and said good-bye to student athletes from 145 countries of the world.

Leaving Best for End
On the last day, three medals go to Iran, two to Serbia while Canada won the first gold in athletics in 16 years.
Australia the Champion
Silver for Croatia, Bronze for Serbia.

Interview: Anna Bessonova, Ukrainian Gymnast
Interview: Mauro Nasciuti, deputy head of Italian delegation
Interview: Aristides Angelopoulos, the Greek water polo team leader
Interview: Phan Ngok Thiet, deputy head of Vietnamese delegation
Survey 12
For the last 12 days Belgrade has been the host to nearly 10 000 student athletes from some 150 countries of the world. As they said over and over again, they had a great time in our fair city.
History
Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 triggered the start of World War I. Most of the subsequent Balkan offensives occurred near Belgrade. Austro-Hungarian monitors shelled Belgrade on 29 July 1914, and it was taken by the Austro-Hungarian Army under General Oskar Potiorek on 30 November. On 15 December, it was re-taken by Serbian troops under Marshal Radomir Putnik. After a prolonged battle which destroyed much of the city, between 6 and 9 October 1915, Belgrade fell to German and Austro-Hungarian troops commanded by Field Marshal August von Mackensen on 9 October 1915. The city was liberated by Serbian and French troops on 5 November 1918, under the command of Marshal Louis Franchet d'Espérey of France and Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia. Since Belgrade was decimated as the front-line city, Subotica overtook the title of the largest city in the Kingdom for a while; still, Belgrade grew rapidly, regaining its position by the early 1920s.

After the war, Belgrade became the capital of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. The Kingdom was split into banovinas, and Belgrade, together with Zemun and Pan?evo, formed a separate administrative unit.

During this period, the city experienced faster growth and significant modernisation. Belgrade's population grew to 239,000 by 1931 (incorporating the town of Zemun, formerly in Austria-Hungary), and 320,000 by 1940. The population growth rate between 1921 and 1948 averaged 4.08% a year.[65] In 1927, Belgrade's first airport opened, and in 1929, its first radio station began broadcasting. The Pan?evo Bridge, which crosses the Danube, was opened in 1935,[66] while "King Alexander Bridge" over Sava was opened in 1934. The last Grand Prix motor racing race before the outbreak of World War II took place around the Belgrade Fortress and was followed by 75,000 spectators. The winner was Tazio Nuvolari.

World War II
Damage caused by the Nazi bombing.On 25 March 1941, the government of regent Crown Prince Paul signed the Tripartite Pact, joining the Axis powers in an effort to stay out of the Second World War. This was immediately followed by mass protests in Belgrade and a military coup d'état led by Air Force commander General Du?an Simovi?, who proclaimed King Peter II to be of age to rule the realm. Consequently, the city was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe on 6 April 1941, when up to 24,000 people were killed.Yugoslavia was then invaded by German, Italian , Hungarian, and Bulgarian forces and suburbs as far east as Zemun, in the Belgrade metropolitan area, were incorporated into a Nazi state, the Independent State of Croatia. Belgrade became the seat of the Nedi regime, headed by General Milan Nedi.

During the summer and fall of 1941, in reprisal for guerrilla attacks, Germans carried out several massacres on Belgrade citizens; in particular, members of the Jewish community were subject to mass shootings at the order of General Franz B?hme, the German Military Governor of Serbia. B?hme rigorously enforced the rule that for every German killed, 100 Serbs or Jews would be shot. The resistance movement in Belgrade was led by Major arko Todorovi lonely from 1941 to his arrest in 1943.

Just like Rotterdam, which was devastated twice, by both German and Allied bombing, Belgrade was bombed once more during World War II, this time by the Allies on 16 April 1944, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. Most of the city remained under German occupation until 20 October 1944, when it was liberated by the Red Army and the Communist Yugoslav Partisans. On 29 November 1945, Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaimed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in Belgrade (later to be renamed to Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 7 April 1963). Higher estimates from the former secret police place the victim count of political persecutions in Belgrade at 10,000.[dir]

Communist YugoslaviaDuring the post-war period, Belgrade grew rapidly as the capital of the renewed Yugoslavia, developing as a major industrial centre.[57] In 1958, Belgrade's first television station began broadcasting. In 1961, the conference of Non-Aligned Countries was held in Belgrade under Tito's chairmanship. In 1968, major student protests against Tito led to several street clashes between students and the police.

FEST is annual film festival held in Belgrade, Serbia since 1971. The festival is usually held in the first quarter of the year. It was the only film festival in socialist countries that attracted big Hollywood stars such as Jack Nicholson, Kirk Douglas, Robert De Niro and directors like Milo? Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Gina Lollobrigida etc.

Interview: Julio Cesar Martin del Campo, Mexican basketball player
Education is Important for Athletes

 

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