GLOBALink | Turkish ice hockey players excited about Beijing Winter Olympics

ISTANBUL, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- As the 2022 Winter Olympics is drawing near, professional ice hockey players in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul have been getting excited to watch and analyze the game structures of the Olympic participants as an effective training method.

Both the men's and women's national team of Turkey failed to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games scheduled in February, and they want to waste no time in getting prepared for the next Olympics, according to Deniz Ince, coach of the Istanbul men's and women's ice hockey teams.

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