Fundraiser launched for world championship campaign of powerlifter Joyce Reboton mb.com.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mb.com.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
6.02.2021, 19:57
The state budget is losing huge sums.
A strong image blow to the Belarusian regime - transferring the Ice Hockey World Championship - will have consequences. Now our country will certainly not be able to hold any serious competition.
The newspaper Belorusy i Rynok decided to figure out what else Belarusian fans can lose and how this will affect the state budget.
No one can give orders, not even the IOC
It became clear back in December that the probability of holding some of the world ice hockey champion matches in 2021 in Minsk (Latvia was elected as the second host country, the timing is from May 21 to June 6) tends to zero. Then the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had been investigating the situation in Belarusian sports for several months, removed the executive committee members of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), headed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka, from participating in the Olympics. The reason was discrimination against athletes for politi