2024-10-26 05:03:00
In addition to this spectacular intervention, the mayor of Nice still wants the construction of a new ice rink a stone’s throw from the stadium.
Le Figaro Nice
Three facilities will host ice sports during the 2030 Olympic Winter Games, in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), including the Allianz Riviera stadium, which will be transformed to host hockey matches. “It’s spectacular, but above all it’s cheap because it can be assembled and disassembled”Mayor Christian Estrosi defended Thursday on this topic in the columns of Dauphiné Libéré. The stadium, usually reserved for football and OGC Nice, will be divided with a central stand, which will also house the changing rooms. Two ice rinks could thus be set up on each side, using the existing stands.
Inaugurated in 2013, the Allianz Riviera with its 35,000 seats has no roof; To cover these two temporary ice rinks, a sort of giant 13,000 square meter tarpaulin will be installed which will form a bubble. “The evolution of technologies allows us to imagine a temporary roof that can be adapted to the existing roof that already completely covers the stands”the elected official declared to the regional newspaper.
17,000 seats are planned for each of the two ice rinks.
Image of the candidacy of the French Alps
The Palais Nikaïa, another existing space reserved more for shows and concerts, in the west of Nice, will also be equipped for curling events. Although the Jean-Bouin ice rink in the city center is considered obsolete, Nice’s city councilor still wants a new venue for ice sports and plans to build it as part of this successful French Alps bid. It would be the only “legacy” construction of these Olympics, defends the municipality, which then intends to leave it to the Nice hockey club, which plays in the first division.
This 4,000-seat facility is still planned near the Allianz Riviera stadium, in the Var plain. The figure skating and short track speed skating competitions will take place there, according to the program presented. But this development will be subject to a change in the local metropolitan urban plan, as elected environmentalists have alerted by writing to the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, who confirmed this point this summer. In the current “PLUm” the area is reserved for housing. If this can be revised, the Nice metropolis will have to prove it “its ability to maintain the productive potential of a social housing offer”indicated the prefect while answering the questions of these elected representatives, who were against the Winter Olympic Games in France from the beginning.
This will be new housing for the Nice Olympic Village with 1,500 beds announced again in the surrounding area, this time behind the stadium, with an announced built-up area of 22,000 square meters for the buildings.
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