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We did tests, experimenting with different shades. We tried a darker colour, more of a typical red, white and blue and it looked a bit boring.” That is something that the 2012 hockey pitches seem unlikely to be
and the innovation has been welcomed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), whose chief executive officer Kelly Fairweather says: “The playing performance and quality of a pitch are the primary con- cern and we’re happy that LOCOG has researched this thoroughly.” The Olympic hockey tournament will feature around 380 male and
female competitors at 2012, in 24 teams playing matches that are spread over 14 days of competition, from July 29 to August 11. The Hockey Centre will have two pitches with one for matches and another
used as a warm-up area. Once the Olympics are over, the centre – in east London’s Zone 5 –
will also stage five-a-side and seven-a-side football in the subsequent Paralympic Games. The centre’s main pitch will host a seven-a-side competition with 96 athletes with cerebral palsy playing 21 matches in five days with capacity set at 16,000, while the warm-up pitch will stage 21 matches featuring 64 blind and partially sighted athletes in the five- a-side competition, also staged over five days with 3,000 seats open. The Hockey Centre was at the latter end of the Olympic procure-
ment schedule and contracts for the hockey centre were not put up for grabs until April 2010. The job was one of the last major venues to be
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