from the IIHF,

With two months to go until the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, representatives of the International Ice Hockey Federation, the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association held a site visit in the Russian city on the Black Sea.

While there are still some diggers and cranes in and around the Olympic Park, they are mostly there to work on the final details and roads....

In total five ice sheets will be used for ice hockey. The Bolshoy Ice Dome, which includes 12 dressing rooms, an entry for bigger vehicles such as busses and a ring road under its roof, has a practice rink that was also used for local kids during the site visit. For many of them it is their first ever hockey season since there haven’t been ice rinks before in the city that used to be known mainly as a summer resort.

Just across the Shayba Arena, a third hockey building includes two practice sheets that will be used by the hockey teams at the Olympics.

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