Bocquaine Pool and Ice Rink

Piscine-patinoire olympique de Reims (English: Reims Olympic Pool and Ice Rink),[7][6] also known as Piscine-patinoire Bocquaine after the street it was built on, and Nautilud for the swimming pool part, was a sports complex located in Reims, Marne, France.

It is best known for its ice rink, which served as the home of Reims' ice hockey teams, the Flammes Bleues and later the Phénix.[8]

The other part was an aquatic center, which housed the city's only 50-metre pool, as well as a smaller teaching pool.[9] In the 1980s, a toboggan—86-metre long as of its dismantlement—was added to the building.[10] It was the home pool for Reims Natation 89, a water polo team that sporadically featured in the Pro A league.[9]

On the third floor was a restaurant with views of the ice rink and the swimming pool on each side, but it was phased out in the 1990s.[11]

The building was approved by the City Council of Reims in 1963.[12] It was designed by the Paris-based team of Jean-Claude Dondel and Roger Dhuit, in cooperation with Jacques Herbé, member of a prominent family of local architects.[5]

The complex had two inauguration ceremonies : one for local dignitaries in October 1967, attended by swimmer Alain Gottvallès, and one in early December 1967, in presence of Minister of Sports François Missoffe.[12]

In 1998, Bocquaine underwent extensive renovations, which included the installation of an elevator.[3][10]

In 2013, the venue had to close immediately after an inspection found advanced signs of decay on its wooden framework.[1] As another renovation was neither technically nor economically viable,[13] it was torn down in the fall of 2014.[4] In this absence of an adequate pool, Reims Natation 89 opted for voluntary relegation to the second tier of French water polo at the end of the 2013–14 season.[9]