2018 By the Book: Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Short Track

The US team compete in the women's 2010 Winter Olympics team pursuit speedskating quarterfinals at the Olympic Oval in Richmond, outside Vancouver, on February 26, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Vincenzo PINTO (Photo credit should read VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)

The three bid cities all propose new venues for speed skating. In this installment of By the Book, Around the Rings presents a look at the competition venues of Annecy, Munich and PyeongChang. By the Book is an exclusive series of reports by Around the Rings based on the bid books presented by the three 2018 bids.

Annecy

Sport: Speed skating

Venue: Speed Skating Oval

$117 million in permanent construction, $10.6 million in temporary construction

New venue

Sport: Figure skating, short track

Venue: Ice Skating Center

$91.8 million in permanent construction, $13.6 million in temporary construction

New venue

Munich

Sport: Speed skating

Venue: Speed Skating Oval

$51.8 million in temporary construction

New venue

Sport: Figure skating, short track

Venue: Olympic Hall – Ice-Arena

$4.2 million in temporary construction

Original construction date: 1972

PyeongChang

Sport: Speed skating

Venue: Science Oval

$100.9 million in permanent construction, $3.3 million in temporary construction

New Venue

Sport: Speed skating, Figure skating, Short track

Venue: Gyeongpo Ice Hall

$81.9 million in permanent construction, $3.3 million in temporary construction

New Venue

By the Book is a series of reports on the 2018 candidate cities, using information provided in the candidate file of each city.

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