Organizing the Olympics in less than five years is not easy. Ideas arise and sometimes are contradicted or abandoned. This is how for the Winter Olympic Games, Nice will host the short-track, curling, figure skating and ice hockey. Initially, the municipal authority explained that it wanted to build two new ice rinks in the Var plain. One with the aim of permanently replacing the Jean-Bouin ice rink (destined to be destroyed after the Games) and the other, temporary, destined to become a gymnasium.
This Thursday, change of direction. Christian Estrosi wants to do things differently. It certainly keeps a new ice rink to accommodate figure skating and short-track and then become the new “frozen enclosure“nicoise, but no longer wants the second temporary ice rink. Instead, a solution was found.
The Nice stadium divided to accommodate two ice rinks
The Allianz Riviera will be transformed into a hockey stadium. The stadium will be divided in two and will then make it possible to set up two fields: one for the men, the other for the women’s teams with the same number of spectators: 17,000. The two will be separated by a partition and new stands (10,000 seats). The installation would be covered to avoid cold losses. It is a large tarpaulin of 13,000 square meters which will be stretched and overpressured to ensure optimal ice quality.
“With this systemexplains Christian Estrosi, we will not leave a legacy unused, but we will use what already exists“. There remains football and OGC Nice who should need his equipment that season. A solution was found with the LFP. The Aiglons had to play two matches at home, but away. There should be no other impact except on the opening ceremony which had once been envisaged in the Allianz.
