In Nairobi, however, the Solar Ice Rink hosts hockey games in a warm-climate nation where the sport has no national foothold. Ice hockey in Kenya. This wonderful story begins with the Solar Ice Rink opening in Nairobi in 2005. I mean, you can bowl anywhere in, say, Belarus — heck, Minsk alone has five bowling alleys — but an ice hockey rink in Kenya? Still, one year after the rink opened, the Kenya Ice Hockey League started, in 2006.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2017 19:07 UTC