‘It is not yet safe to reintegrate the Russian and Belarusian national and club teams’: IIHF
Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season.
The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships and effectively next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Italy, although the International Olympic Committee has the final say. “It is not yet safe to reintegrate the Russian and Belarusian national and club teams,” the IIHF said, because “the current security conditions do not allow the necessary requirements for the organization of tournaments guaranteeing the safety of all.”The 2026 Winter Olympics are scheduled for Feb. 6–22 in Milan and Cortina.
Russia, in previous guises as the Soviet Union or Unified Team, has won the Olympic gold nine times. Russia won the silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Belarus have been banned from international ice hockey tournaments since then. The IOC in 2023 green-lit Russian and Belarussian individual athletes participating in international events after meeting some conditions but they have remained banned from team events.
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