110 tons of beer and 358 prostitutes - 2014 World IIHF Championship in numbers
Minsk during the 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship. Photo: Euroradio
The 2014 IIHF World Championship in Minsk was a big success with non-stop parties and relaxed atmosphere. Unusually polite police officers eagerly helped merry foreign fans who came to Belarus during the five-day visa-free regime. It would be no exaggeration to say that we breathed with fresh air for two weeks.
But let's leave the air alone and recall the key statistics around the ice hockey world championship in Minsk.
Nearly 31 thousand tourists visited Minsk during the championship having used the five-day visa-free regime. To enter Belarus, all one needed to do is to present a passport and and a ticket to a hockey.
A total of nearly 80 000 foreigners from 46 countries came to Belarus.
Ice hockey fans consumed 110 tons of beer, 7.5 tons of barbeque and 20 tons of grilled sausages at arena and fan-zones.
Ahead of the tournament, Belarus police urgently purchased 1530 bullet-proof helmets.
Police detained 358 female sex workers and 1 male sex worker.
Belarus invested $1.5 billion in the preparations for the championship, including only $5.4 million in the development of ice hockey.
651846 viewers attended matches at Minsk Arena and Zhizhouka Arena.
$390 cost the ticket from re-sellers for the 2014 IIHF World Championship final.
Activists were sentenced to 432 days of arrest. Police isolated them for the whole period of the tournament.
