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London and two more pitches – also featuring the same blue and pink colour design – were installed in the summer of 2011 at the Old Loughtonians’ Hockey Club in Essex, to form a Hockey Games Time Training Venue. Once in competition in Stratford, hockey players will be com-
peting in front of a crowd of 16,000 who will be sat on tempo- rary seats surrounding the main hockey arena, which are being installed between January and March 2012 with completion expected in April 2012. That deadline is due to the hockey centre being lined up to
host the London International Invitational, a four-day hockey tournament for male and female sides scheduled to bully off on Wednesday 2 May. When the Olympic and Paralympic Games are over, the
Hockey Centre will be moved move to the north of the Olympic Park and combined with another group of facilities there, known as Eton Manor.
Contractor ISG has a contract to manage the overlay at the
Olympic venues and this contract will see the firm take down temporary facilities, such as spectator seating, tents, cabins and platforms, utilities, fire safety, specialist sports lighting and drainage. The contract covers all temporary facilities at both permanent and impermanent venues and will include shifting the hockey stadium. The new home at Eton Manor will be a 3,000-seat multi-
sports centre with the option to increase the capacity up to 15,000 for big events with four indoor and six outdoor tennis courts, five-a-side pitches and the two hockey pitches, but before then comes London 2012. Costing an estimated £7.3 million, the Hockey Centre is
expected to see 780,000 spectators during the Olympics and Paralympics. With the completion of the main hockey pitch in October 2011, some of the home players expected to take part in the 2012 Games were able to start training on their home field
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