Athletistic / Hockey. Two-time Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov spoke about the Russian Hockey Federation’s (RHF) demand to allow junior teams to participate in international competitions. Earlier, the head of the FHR, Vladislav Tretyak, said that the organization would send a corresponding letter to the International Hockey Federation (IIHF).

The appeal will be sent against the backdrop of UEFA’s decision to allow Russian youth teams to participate in football tournaments.

“It was high time to do it. Since such a decision was made in football, then we have to try in hockey. Trying is not torture, you have to fight at every gate.

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At the same time, conditional Finns, Swedes and Czechs in football do not have the same weight as in hockey. Here, the national federations have more influence.

And the fact that in football someone refuses to play with us is nothing to worry about. Argentina and Brazil are not opposed to it, so why worry,” Kozhevnikov is quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.


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