Inside the Olympic Hockey Arena Chaos: Secrets and Scandals You Won’t Believe

It is 64 days until the first hockey game of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and the main hockey arena is still under construction. A test event, to determine whether the ice is good enough to play on, has already been pushed back. While providing plentiful entertainment for the region’s Umarell, the construction delay is proving stressful for everyone else, given that, as a top organizer said last week, “there is no Plan B.” Now comes the news that even if construction is completed, the ice surface—usually significantly larger for international play than in the NHL—will be smaller than NHL rinks.



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