Participants in the 2010 World Cup will play green pucks

Green washers will be accompanied by the first official appearance on the ice of participants in the starting on Friday in Germany of the 74th hockey championship, the press service of the world championship informs.

Sports shells are so unusual for hockey colors will be used on this day by the national teams of Germany and the United States during a warm -up before the starting game of the tournament, which promises to go down in history as a record in the number of spectators .

Green washers have become one of the main instruments of the new anti-Doping campaign, which is begins to begin the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) on the start of the World Cup. The slogans of the Doping - Outgoing game and "In hockey have no place for doping" are applied to the washers.

It is planned that green washers will also be used in preparation for the matches of the Finland championship - Denmark and Switzerland - Latvia, which will take place in Cologne and Mannheim, respectively. Thus, unusual goals will visit the sites of all three cities that accept world championship.

As part of the campaign, videos were prepared with appeals of world hockey stars of different years, including Wayne Gretzky, Yari Kurri, Peter Forsberg, Henrik Zetterberg, Zdeno Hara, RIA Novosti notes.