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Switzerland is hot for curling. All tickets for the final weekend of the Men’s World Cup in Schaffhausen (March 30 to April 7) are already gone. There are no more free places for the semi-finals on Saturday and the final on Sunday in the ice hockey hall of the IWC Arena, which is temporarily being converted into a curling festival hut. The actually good news also gives the organizers a headache.
Because the team around OC boss Michael Stäuble (65) – the former Formula 1 commentator at SRF, who has been playing curling for 30 years and comes from the Schaffhausen region – absolutely wants to ensure that there is enough for the relatives and fans of the capacity of the finalist teams there.
Lightning strike reconstruction of the stadium Saturday evening
So the World Cup boom is now leading to an insane project. On the evening before the semi-final day, one of the ice rinks that are no longer needed will be constructed with an extra stand. “With this mini stand we would get 390 extra seats,” Stäuble told Blick.
This overnight conversion is a time-consuming challenge even for the experienced grandstand builders of the Nüssli company, as the OC boss describes. This is possible because there are only permanent stands on three sides of the field in the IWC Arena. Now the fourth team should also get seats for the medal games in the short term.
Schaffhausen actually wanted the Women’s World Cup in 2021
The implementation has not yet been completely determined; This still has to be approved by various bodies at the world association and, due to questions such as escape routes, also by the authorities. With the additional stands, the stadium’s capacity would increase from 1,100 to 1,490 fans.
That’s a lot for the niche sport of curling, as the empty seats at the recent European Championships in Scotland showed. Curling tree in Schaffhausen. There has never been a sporting event of this international scale at the Rhine Falls. The Women’s Football World Cup was actually supposed to take place in Northern Switzerland in 2021, but was canceled due to corona. Now the fans are even more looking forward to a home medal for the Swiss team led by skip Yannick Schwaller (28).
Source : Blick
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