Athletistic/Hockey. Tatiana Tarasova, honored figure skating coach of the USSR, expressed her opinion regarding the absence of the Russian national team in major international hockey tournaments.
Earlier, Elliott Friedman announced that the next Hockey World Cup will take place without the participation of the Russian national team.
“Russia’s absence from the Hockey World Cup? This is obviously unacceptable. Hockey is a national sport for us. Attempts to exclude Russia from world hockey are completely stupid,” he shared his opinion in an interview with RB Sport.
- Mikhailov: “Even a league as independent as the NHL succumbed to political pressure”
Source: Sport
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