‘Close to a disaster’: Olympic hockey rink construction saga is history repeating itself

The late scramble to get the hockey venues ready for the Milan Cortina Olympics may have the NHL concerned and the hockey world talking, but it doesn’t come as a surprise to those who were on the ground the last time NHL players traveled to Italy for the Winter Games. Twenty years ago in Turin, construction delays went right down to the wire and left no time to stage a proper test event. In fact, organizers even found themselves crudely reconfiguring a section of the lower bowl at Palasport Olim

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