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Canada has beaten the United States after the two countries battled it out on the rink in a championship game that proved to be about more than just ice hockey.

It can turn roads and pavements into ice rinks very quickly and in more extreme cases the weight of ice can bring down power lines and trees.

"They had been sought out and identified as the future of the sport," the club's CEO Doug Zeghibe told me while standing alongside the rink where the two athletes trained day in and day out.

Inside is the sole ice rink in east and central Africa, a training base for the Kenya Ice Lions, the country's first and only ice hockey team.

Some areas near the Ohio River in Kansas and Missouri turned to "skating rinks" in the frigid temperatures, he added.