Photo Courtesy: CUBuffs.com 01/26/2011 Curtis Snyder, Associate SID ERZURUM, Turkey - Seven University of Colorado skiers along with head coach Richard Rokos arrived in Erzurum, Turkey, Wednesday ahead of the 25th World University Games. The equivalent of the Olympic Games for athletes enrolled in colleges and universities around the world held every other year, the games officially start Thursday and end on February 6. A total of 1,880 athletes and 850 officials from 22 sports are participating in the games from a record 57 countries. "The World University Games gives athletes an opportunity for global competition in an Olympic or Pan-Am Games-type situation," Rokos said. "It's the perfect opportunity for all involved to measure mutual strengths and weaknesses. We will continue to train for our ultimate goal of the NCAA Championships while we are here, but this is both an athletic and social event on the level of the Pan-Am Games or the Olympic Games." Rokos i...