WC: Shake-up of the lower tiers of IHWC

[SoundAndFury]

This led nowhere? Color me surprised.

 

[FrHockeyFan]

It is terribly on-brand for the IIHF to have their semi-annual congress in a country that has no ice rinks.

IIHF - Recap: 2024 Semi-Annual Congress

Event in Rhodes spotlights women's role, announces tournament hosts

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I guess those places are more easily available and cheaper to book that time of the year. Yet, they still occasionally organise it in more hockey-friendly countries like Malmö in 2001, Vancouver in 2007, Montreux in 2008, Tokyo in 2012, Paris in 2016 or St. Petersburg in 2021 just to mention the non-Mediterannean places it was held in over the past 25 years.