Athletistic/ Others. Yolanda Chen, medalist of the World Athletics Championship, believes that Russian hockey players playing in the NHL promote the national sport.

“Now we have few athletes participating in international tournaments. Basically all competitions were national and our sport started to develop well.

Tennis and hockey players have the opportunity to play abroad and they achieve good results. NHL guys have many fans, including abroad. They are known and sought after. This favors Russian sport. I believe the best players and scorers in the NHL are ours,” Chen told Metaratings.


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