2024-05-28 11:16:44
Russian coach Andrej Nazarov indicated to the web site Championat.com that with out Russian participation, the Czech victory on the hockey world championship has no worth.
“The victory of the Czech group on the World Championship can’t be full with out the participation of the Russian group,” mentioned Nazarov.
The previous coach of the Kazakhstan nationwide group and plenty of golf equipment within the KHL added that “the exclusion of the Russian nationwide group for political causes unrelated to sports activities is the peak of cynicism”.
Russian hockey gamers final performed on the World Cup in 2021 in Riga, the place the group completed fifth.
Even then, nonetheless, the Russian group performed beneath the Olympic flag, not the Russian flag, because of the case of state-organized Russian doping and the next sanction of the World Anti-Doping Company in 2019.
The Russian web site Sport Specific wrote that the reactions of the followers and gamers of the Czech nationwide group within the last of the World Hockey Championship in Prague have been super.
In line with the server, the championship had a particular worth due to the unprecedented variety of prime gamers from the NHL. In line with the web site, the writer of the Czech group’s profitable purpose, David Pastrňák, will change into a nationwide hero within the Czech Republic.
The Sport Specific commentator calls the view of plenty of Russian sports activities representatives, in keeping with which the championship with out the participation of the Russian nationwide group and even watching it itself, absurd, as “snobbery”.
In line with him, Russia will return to worldwide competitions ultimately and should subsequently continually develop and enhance, as different groups do as effectively.
The commentator additional factors to the semi-final lack of the Swedes towards the Czechs, which he attributes primarily to their errors on a “psychological stage”, or to the efficiency of the People, who “for the final ten years did every thing they may to place collectively the perfect group on paper”, however have been eradicated within the quarter-finals.
“Profitable gold after 14 years and on residence ice is an extremely thrilling story,” added Sport Specific concerning the Czech triumph.
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