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On April 28, 2013 the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee will bring the series of 2012-2013 season Test Events to a close with the final matches of the Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. 

With the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship coming to its final day, it’s time for the tournament participants to share emotions about the test event’s experience. The end of the competition brings just the beginning of the ice hockey life to the Olympic city of Sochi.

The Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad, alongside Games General Partner, Sberbank, has organized another Red Rocks music festival tour. 

Now the preliminary stage of the IIHF Ice Hockey Under 18 World Championships has come to an end, athletes will be given a day’s rest before the playoffs. All teams will stay at a hotel in the Adler district courtesy of Sochi 2014 organisers. The accommodation has been highly praised by the athletes.

More than 20 departments from the Sochi City Administration and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Krasnodar region have participated in a seminar to discuss the long-term social, environmental and economic benefits of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

The preliminary round of the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship is nearly finished, but Sochi 2014 will continue to test functions and services at the Olympic venues.

In honor of World Earth Day, which is traditionally celebrated on April 22, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee is launching an environmental campaign to clean up the Natural Ornithological Park in the Imeretinskaya valley.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee is continuing to test all functions and services at the Ice Hockey U18 World Championship, staged at the two Olympic arenas in Sochi.

On April 18^th, the 2013 Ice Hockey U18 World Championship has officially kicked off with the first games at the ice arenas in the Olympic Park in Sochi.

On April 16^th, all of the 10 teams participating in the 2013 Ice Hockey U18 World Championship have followed their trainings at the ice arenas of the Olympic Park in Sochi.

From the 15th-18th of April, Sochi will host the 76th Congress of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS).

On April 18, 2013, the Ice Hockey Under 18 World Championship, led by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee and the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia (IHFR) in partnership with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), starts at two Olympic Park ice arenas.

From 3 to 7 April, the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad will present the XVI Patriotic Song Festival hosted in the city of Sochi.

As part of International Children's Book Day on April 2, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has unveiled a new information resource the Sochi 2014 Alphabet and organized a meeting for schoolchildren in Sochi with famous athletes, who told the children about their favorite books.