2 Months in Torino: City Venues: Hockey 1

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

City Venues: Hockey 1

Torino Palasport Olimpico (Torino's Olympic "Palasport"). Also known as Hockey 1 (to us). I am really happy how this photo turned out.

The actual rink is 30x60 m.
Venue also contains a second training rink. It holds almost 8,500 spectators. The top teams (i.e. Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden etc.) will play all of their games here and will host the Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies.

Designed by Arata Isozaki of Tokyo.

Photos 3 & 4 are me at center ice, at least what is going to be center ice soon enough. I always hoped I would be at center ice at the Olympics, I just didn't know it would work out this way. Either way, I'll take it.

The last photo is the dressing room for Team Canada taken from a window in the door. All of the other teams will rotate dressing rooms throughout the competition schedule but Team Canada gets their own room because they are the reigning gold medalists.

Remember to click the photos to see them full-size.

# posted by jay @ Tuesday, January 17, 2006