France venue marked modification project!

Article posted by Coliseum, November 12^th, 2024

Image: Allianz Riviera, MM218, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Allianz Riviera Stadium in Nice, France, will host ice hockey competitions at the 2030 Winter Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the 2030 Winter Olympics will take place in the French Alps and the City of Nice (France) will host ice hockey and the related ice hockey events. The Allianz Riviera is the proposed main venue for ice hockey.

The Allianz Riviera is a multiuse stadium in Nice, France, used mostly for football matches and is the home of the Ligue 1 team OGC Nice. The stadium can hold 36,178 people.

The OGC Nice, or simply Nice, is a French professional football club based in Nice, France. The club was founded in 1904 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Nice plays its home matches at the Allianz Riviera Stadium.

The 2030 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXVI Olympic Winter Games and branded as French Alps 2030, is an upcoming international multisport event scheduled to take place from February 1^st-17^th, 2030 in France.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the international, non-Governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The IOC is the authority responsible for organizing the Summer, Winter and Youth Olympics.

‘ledauphine.com’ stated that there will be spectacular transformation of the Allianz Riviera into a double Olympic ice rink to host the ice hockey games and it is indeed amazing!

‘ledauphine.com’ further stated that the above is a novel kind of project initiated by the City of Nice, which will host the entire Olympic ice hockey tournaments, men’s and women’s, at the Allianz Riviera. A spectacular development that will, without a doubt, be the flagship event which will bring together all the ice events during the 2030 Winter Olympics (hockey, figure skating, short track, and curling), except for speed skating, which is likely to be outsourced to Turin, Italy.

The 20,068-capacity Stade des Alpes in Grenoble (France) hosted an open-air ice hockey match during the Winter Games on December 22^nd, 2013, attracting 20,000 spectators.

‘FOOTBOOM’ stated that the Allianz Riviera will be divided into two segments allowing for the establishment of two fields: One for the men’s team and another for the women’s team separated by a partition and new stands (10,000 seats).

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