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Winter Olympics venue incredibly cold with hail (5)

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I believe the answer is:

sochi

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'winter olympics venue' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'incredibly cold with hail' is the wordplay.
'incredibly cold' becomes 'soc' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hail' becomes 'hi'.
'soc'+'hi'='SOCHI'

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(Another definition for sochi that I've seen is " Winter Olympics venue".)

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