18.01.2021, 14:37
The International Ice Hockey Federation will probably deprive Minsk of the Ice Hockey World Championship.
Today Belarus may lose the status of one of the hosts - along with Latvia - of the next hockey world championship. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) seems to have no choice but to take the tournament away from it due to strong political and financial pressure on the office, while the most important sponsors are threatening to leave it. Latvia, Denmark, and Slovakia have already expressed their readiness to undertake the part of the championship for which Belarus was responsible, Kommersant writes.
Today a meeting of the Council of the International Ice Hockey Federation will take place, dedicated to the most painful topic ever. It is associated with the holding of the IIHF main tournament - the Ice Hockey World Championship, which did not take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The next one was to be jointly hosted from May 21 to May