Stars from the North American National Hockey League will play in the Winter Olympics, the head of the International Ice Hockey Federation said on Sunday, as Milan-Cortina organisers and the International Olympic Committee gave the thumbs up to the Games' main competition rink.
Luc Tardif told reporters present at a key test event for the Santa Giulia arena in Milan that "there is no reason that NHL will not come" to the Olympics for the first time since 2014.
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