Saint Petersburg head coach S.K.A. and first vice-president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation (RHF) Romain Rotenberg thanked the President of Russia Vladimir Poutine national hockey team fans and coaches for winning the 2018 Olympics, and also remembered the hardships it took to win gold.
On Saturday February 25, it was five years since the Russian team won the hockey tournament at the PyeongChang Olympics, beating the German team in extra time with a score of 4:3.
— 5 golden years at the 2018 Olympic Games! I would like to thank the leaders of our country and personally Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for their incredible confidence, the fans for their enormous support, all the players, coaches and staff of this team for their 24/7 work. We won this gold medal together!
This road to the Games has been very difficult for us. We were deprived of the flag and the anthem, and some prominent hockey players were not allowed to enter Pyeongchang without explanation. I can honestly say our whole team made it to the Olympics by a miracle.
We overcame all obstacles, assembled a powerful team and won Olympic gold for our country for the first time in 26 years. Of course, everyone remembers the incredible final with Germany, but to get there a lot had to be done, from the selection and training camps to the most difficult matches in the preliminary phase and the playoffs. . This is probably one of the hardest, but also the happiest times of my life.
Now we are doing everything to come back even stronger. It is just beginning ! — Rotenberg wrote on the Telegram channel.
Source : MatchTV
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