Olympic ice hockey arena will be ready for Games: IOC director
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Milan, Italy: The Winter Olympics main ice hockey rink will be ready for the start of competition next month, the IOC s sport director said on Friday,...
Milan, Italy: The Winter Olympics main ice hockey rink will be ready for the start of competition next month, the IOC's sport director said on Friday, ahead of a key test event for the arena.
Asked whether there was any possibility that the Santa Giulia venue would not be ready for the Milan-Cortina Games, Pierre Ducrey said: "No chance at all."
Officially called the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, the rink is scheduled to host 33 preliminary and knock-out games at the upcoming Olympics, which run between February 6 and 22.
Developers are still rushing to complete the venue, but organisers told AFP it is structurally ready and that the remaining works on the venue are simply for "the finishing touches".
And Ducrey insisted that players from the National Hockey League (NHL), widely regarded as the world's top hockey league, will compete at the Olympics for the first time since 2014.
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