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and completely fresh breaking news

 

The International Hockey Federation (IIHF) Council will meet today to decide on actions against Russia and Belarus for a military invasion of Ukraine.

 

The Finnish portal iltalehti.fi has come up with information from a source in the IIHF, what decisions should be made today from 6 pm our time.

 

The IIHF Council should decide on taking off the 2023 Men's World Championship and the 2023 Junior World Championship from Russia, which was originally scheduled to organize it.

 

Also both :RUS  and :BLR are going to be kicked out from this May World Championships and should be replaced by Austria and France in Finland, both national teams dropped out of the highest division at the 2019 World Championships, and since then the 1st Division World Championships for the pandemic have not taken place.

 

This should also means Russia and Belarus will be by default relegated to Division I A for next year :lol:

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18 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

Austria and France set to remplace both teams

 

 

 

PS: I think we should have a thread dedicated to the sports consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Yep the groups should be

 

A- (Helsinki):

Canada

Russia Austria

Germany

Switzerland

Slovakia

Denmark

Kazakhstan

Italy

 

B- (Tampere):

Finland

USA

Czech Republic

Sweden

Latvia

Norway

Belarus France

Great Britain

 

The only question which will remain is (if the IIHF council will confirm it tonight) if there will be any relegated team from the tournament, if no:

RUS and BLR would be able to return next year.

if there would be relegation: than RUS and BLR will be really retrograded to Division IA this year and since they will not be allowed to play they will be by default relegated to Division I B next year and so on...

 

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12 minutes ago, Wumo said:

A rumour, from a source, states that FIFA will suspend all Russian national teams from its' competitions.

 

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/fifa-set-suspend-russia-internationals-source-2022-02-28/

The BBC are now reporting it so it is 99% true. 

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2 hours ago, hckošice said:

Yep the groups should be

 

A- (Helsinki):

Canada

Russia Austria

Germany

Switzerland

Slovakia

Denmark

Kazakhstan

Italy

 

B- (Tampere):

Finland

USA

Czech Republic

Sweden

Latvia

Norway

Belarus France

Great Britain

 

The only question which will remain is (if the IIHF council will confirm it tonight) if there will be any relegated team from the tournament, if no:

RUS and BLR would be able to return next year.

if there would be relegation: than RUS and BLR will be really retrograded to Division IA this year and since they will not be allowed to play they will be by default relegated to Division I B next year and so on...

 

This all but assures Russia cannot qualify directly through the WR for the 2026 Olympics correct?

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