Double Olympic champion Alexander Kozhevnikov told that he was not retracting his comments about Canadian hockey players and their behavior in Russian hotels.
Earlier, Canadian media reported that five Canadian hockey players who participated in the 2018 World Junior Championship would be charged with gang rape. The athletes were called to voluntarily surrender to the police in London (Ontario, Canada).
— People should learn from their mistakes, it’s the normal course of time. But before there were certain people in these news – now there are others. When I commented on the first wave of the scandal, I said that Canadians were acting like trash in our hotels, and that is what they did. That’s what they are,” Kozhevnikov told .
Hockey Canada has been under public scrutiny since May 2022 after settling a $3.5 million lawsuit against a woman who alleged eight hockey players, including members of Canada’s 2018 Junior National Team, sexually assaulted her in a hotel while she was in a state of strong alcoholism. poisoning. Earlier it became known that the police were also investigating a case of suspected group sexual harassment by the Canadian junior team in 2003.
Source : MatchTV
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