Why the Russian team will not play at the 2022 World Hockey Championship, how the IIHF isolates our country
“They want to humiliate Russia through hockey.” Why our team will not be at the 2022 World Cup in Finland
The world championship is a holiday, but our team was kicked out abroad and made an outcast of international hockey.
Today in Tampere and Helsinki begins the international holiday of hockey – the world championship. To our great regret, Russia was expected with this holiday, and to be more precise, they kicked it out and loudly slammed the door in front of its nose and made it an outcast in the international arena. Why did this happen?
The Russian team has been a randomly selected World Cup elite division since 1992, succeeding the USSR team. In the entire history of Russian hockey, 27 gold medals have been won – according to this indicator, our team shares a record with the Canadian team. In just 67 years, 47 different springs were won, and only consecutively missed the world championship. In 1962, as a sign of solidarity with the GDR team, the players refused visas to the United States, tournaments were boycotted by all socialist countries.
Our team has already missed the World Cup because of politics. 60 years ago, the USSR boycotted the tournament in the USA
The 2022 World Cup is the first major international organization after the collapse of the USSR, which will be held without our team, but, unlike in 1962, this is a decision that our federation could not do without. At the end of February, due to all the events related to sports, a wave arose against Russian athletics, and hockey did not become exceptional. Refusals to play with Russia, suspend all teams, select all tournaments and even suspend our membership in the IIHF, voiced from all European countries – embassies, Latvia, Finland, Czech Republic and ours etc.
Russian team at the 2021 World Cup
Photo: RIA Novosti
“We reported that Russia and Belarus are completely excluded from international hockey activities, and that we will not play against the national teams of countries. We also announced that Russia and Belarus will not take part in the men’s World Championships in Tampere and Helsinki in May,” said the head of the Finnish Ice Hockey Federation, Harri Nummela.
At first, there remains a faint hope that our hockey players will still be allowed to participate in the championships, but under a neutral flag, but the application of the IIHF happens to be very sharp. Russia was completely isolated – all teams were suspended for an indefinite period and the right to the MFM-2023, which was supposed to be held in Novosibirsk and Omsk, was taken away. Belarus has undergone a similar suspension from all tournaments.
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He still remained the president of the 2023 World Cup, to his place of residence in St. Petersburg, as well as to the IIHF. But in dealing with the European media, he had a very different attitude, and he talked about a possible second package of outreach to Russia. They end – at the end of April, our country lost the St. Petersburg World Cup.
This is not the end of the story – Russia’s membership in the IIHF may be suspended or the choice of our country from the organization. volume, a specially created ethics committee in the investigation against the FHR and separately against the honorary president of the federation, René Fasel, for consideration can also be carried out for disciplinary action. What – is unknown, but it does not bode well in any case.
Luc Tardif
Photo: RIA Novosti
“The IIHF with Tardif not only wants to curry favor, but also humiliate Russia through hockey. They begin to act from a position of strength, not including the mind. Politics has not only interfered, politics is now dictating its terms to everyone. There is no longer a single field of activity in the world where she would not have put her hand.
One can only agree with the official Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov that the command “Face” was given and everyone wants to bark louder, bite harder. They try to tell innocent athletes. We need to fight, protest, appeal to the eyes of the world community. There are sensible people all over the world, ”said Vyacheslav Bykov, former head coach of the Russian national team.
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The FHR, of course, is doing what it can – it will appeal against the IIHF decision to remove the national teams and belonging to the youth and Western European championships, but this is unlikely to help. “It’s a waste of time. Now there is no chance for any punishment. It is clear that we must try, but it seems to me that it was necessary to drag out a little time. This should be done when everything around calms down a little. Then reason and the president will prevail,” said the world champion in the Russian national team, the former Avangard Maxim Sushinsky.
oddly enough, watching the world championship without Russia, which is one of the six major hockey countries and so far continues to take third place in the IIHF ranking. But this is the new reality of our world.