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.

 

[Albatros]

Even when top division countries were responsible for organizing these autumn events they still preferred to take it to the Mediterranean, for example Slovakia organized theirs in the resort of Portorož in Slovenia.