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Twickenham Stoop primed for Great Britain’s circulate into ‘Big Stadium Hockey’

Raul Walker by Raul Walker
August 11, 2019
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Twickenham Stoop primed for Great Britain’s circulate into ‘Big Stadium Hockey’
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Great Britain’s hockey groups will run out on a pioneering pop-up turf surface at Twickenham Stoop on Sunday in an exceptional move towards ‘Big Stadium Hockey,’ which is ready to attract the sport’s biggest crowd within the UK since the London 2012 Olympics.

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The floor-breaking pitch has been mounted at the house of Gallagher Premiership membership Harlequins so that it will host a double-header when Great Britain’s ladies and men face New Zealand of their very last domestic games within the inaugural FIH Pro League.

With around 12,500 tickets bought, the event is likewise set to exceed the ten,000 attendances the Women’s Hockey World Cup attracted at Lee Valley closing summer season.

Developed with the today’s pitch generation, the transportable turf requires as much as sixty-five percent less water than different overall performance-primarily based surfaces. It should revolutionize the spectating profile of the game, with the concept being that pitches should be dropped onto football and rugby stadiums at some stage in their low season.

“This will not just be game-changing for us, however for hockey around the arena,” said Sally Munday, leader government of England Hockey, who says the pitch innovation ought to clear up the issue of limited seating at Stratford’s three,000-potential Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, which regularly has to be extended when web hosting fundamental furniture.“From a hockey perspective, if we need to host a huge event, it way we should construct a huge quantity of brief infrastructure, transient seats. What this allows us to do is go into a present reason-constructed stadium and drop a pitch. We have massive interest from a whole load of different sports activities and different stadiums, wherein it may be highly useful for them too.”

The project has been spearheaded through England Hockey in partnership with artificial floor company Polytan, that allows you to use the pitching era at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Sport England and the International Hockey Federation have additionally supported the scheme, that is geared toward further capitalizing at the legacy of the London Olympics and championing the spectator boom that hockey has skilled in latest years.

Since 2012, the variety of fanatics who can have paid to peer the game after Sunday’s doubleheader gets underneath way will surpass 1,000,000 – a tremendous sized boom at the 25,000 tickets offered for global hockey activities within the ten years previous to 2012.

Great Britain goalkeeper Maddie Hinch said: “If we will maintain these price ticket demands being as high as they were for the reason that Rio, then we can do other one-off showcases like we’re doing for this one.

“It’s an awesome platform for hockey to be performed in front of a massive crowd. This stuff changed into just single years and years ago. I bear in mind going to worldwide video games, and there had been handiest hundreds of human beings there, not to mention thousands.”

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