Additional IIHF Requirements for Belarus 01/13/21
(ATR) Belarus and Latvia co-hosting the 2021 men’s world championship remains the “first option” for the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Alexander Lukashenko meets with René Fasel on January 11. (Keystone/Nikolai Petrov/Pool)
But IIHF president René Fasel said the federation has told the Belarusian government what it must do if it wants to remain a co-host for the event, which runs from May 21-June 6.
Fasel, in a question-and-answer format on the federation website, provided details following a meeting earlier this week with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
The IIHF delegation also met with Roman Golovchenko, the Belarus Prime Minister and chair of the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Organizing Committee, Sergei Kovalchuk, the Minister of Sports, and representatives from the Belarus Ice Hockey Association.