Italy's Winter Olympic organisers insist ice hockey arena ready despite hole in rink

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71% : Don Moffatt, who works for the Colorado Avalanches in the National Hockey League (NHL) and is in charge of the ice at the Olympic rink, told AFP via a spokesman that he is happy with the ice and that such teething problems can happen the first time a rink is skated on.
66% : Over Friday and Sunday, the arena will host fixtures which will decide Italy's top ice hockey league and cup competitions, a month later than the original test event which had to be moved to the Games' secondary ice rink in Milan's western suburbs due to the state of the venue.
61% : " The women's ice hockey tournament starts on February 5 before the NHL stars take to the ice in the men's tournament on February 11.
57% : Officially called the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, the rink is scheduled to host 33 preliminary and knock-out games at the upcoming Olympics, which run between February 6 and 22.
56% : "We're very excited they're coming back," Ducrey said to reporters at the ice rink.
52% : Sore point The ice hockey arena is one of the few entirely new venues built for the Olympics, which span a vast area of northern Italy from economic capital Milan to the Dolomite mountains that straddle the country's borders with Austria and Slovenia.
48% : The arena's construction has been one of the sore points of preparations for the Olympics, with the late delivery and rink quality causing concern for both the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and NHL.

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