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Updated as of May 12th, 2021

First 4 NHL reinforcement for confirmed 3 defenders Nikita Zadorov (Chicago), Artyom Zub (Ottawa), Vladislav Gavrikov (Columbus) and 1 forward Mikhail Grigorenko (Columbus) In other news Rene Fasel confirmed in an interview to TV RTS that the tournament will start without spectators in the stands, The preliminary Round will certainly be without fans in the arenas, but there still a chnace fans will be allowed for the 2nd phase from the Quarterfinals.

Finally also something positive for us here. the work with our M K4 squad clearly help Petrušová/Gamsjäger pair a lot. They are still young and I believe if they will continue to work hard like that together, they may absolutely aim for something in Paris in 3 years

How is is possible, are not only 34 players qualified for the singles ?

First names for team announced def Zac Jones and forwards Kevin Rooney & Colin Blackwell (all NY Rangers), Conor Garland (Arizona) and the son of slovak parents Kevin Labanc (San Jose) whom moved to the states in 1994, there was some speculations for Labanc to represent Slovakia a couple of years ago, but he chosed USA. Two other veterans also confirmed their participation at the tournament for USA, maybe the most famous names of the team so far Justin Abdelkader (who played this season in with EV Zug) and Brian Boyle (who did not play anywhere this season)

so qualification over ?

So sadly we had to change our basecamp, UEFA will repay the cancellation costs. Our Federation chosed and booked the Hotel Belmond in Saint Petersburg (basecamp of during 2018 World Cup) which will be entirely closed in a special bubble and will use the Zenit St. Petersburg training center.

Sadly it is official, Richard Pánik, Andrej Sekera and Christián Jaroš will not reinforce our team. All three said their NO. In other hand Marián Studenič from New Jersey is confirmed and will arrive next week. Also both fresh champions with Lukko Rauma Pavol Skalický and Kristián Pospíšil confirmed their participation and will join the team as soon as possible. The team staff is still working on Adam Ružička from Calgary, the response should be known in the next days. But overall this should be everything, since there no sense to call other NHLers who will eventually lose in the Play-Offs, because of coronavirus measures, they would have to stay 3 days in isolation and then another 3 days without contact with other team mates and only after they would be able to play. I guess any of the teams will not call by these circumstances during the tournament players after Stanley Cup 1st round.

Total disaster from Matej, the guy is not even able to win a significantly reduced field semifinal

74 Sidakov Gold Chamizo Silver and bronze Dake and Iran because Iran still extremely hearthbreaking about Salkazanov not qualified here my personal worst moment of the whole Tokyo 2020 qualifications so far... 86 Yazdani Gold Naifonov Silver for Bronze I have no idea, maybe USA and hopefully because it would be nice (but not if he´ll face Makoev obviously)

well, or maybe not That was a pretty disappointing performance by Matej. I think it is safe to say, We are not going sadly to add anyone else to our canoeing sprint squad I am afraid. Will be one of the smallest team in Tokyo composed only by mens Kayak and again as usual everything will turn around the K4...yeah, disappointing without M Canoe and any female representative, but what can we do, it is how it is

Not sure what we can expect here, Our biggest hoepe Ivana Kmeťová is pregnant and will skip this season, thus we lost chance for a female representative in this sport, the other girls are still too young and inexperienced. but I am interested in one name Lisa Maria Gamsjäger and how she will do in her debut at international senior level, this girl has a really interesting CV worth a Hollywood script. She was born in Austria to Austrian father and Slovak mother, her father left them after her birth, she moved to Slovakia (Komárno) with her mother when she was 2 years old, at 9 she watched Canoeing Slalom at the Olympics and decided to become a future star of this sport, but in Komárno they have only canoeing Sprint club and venue, so she accepted and started this sport, but seeing there more chances and financial funds of this sport in Hungary she moved to Gyor at 14 and started attending Hungarian school, at 15 received Hungarian citizenship and started competing for Hungary, won various medals at Juniors ad U23 Eurpean competitions in K2 & K4. In 2019 after graduation she decided to end her career. the sport did no more entertaining her. she looked for a job and found one quickly, worked as a flight attendant in a large flying company. But in 2020 the coronavirus came and she lost her job... Our M K4 head coach contacted her in summer and invited her to try to return to canoeing in our country again, so she agreed, restarted her career, trainings etc... and now ? well, last month she won the Slovak internal qualification for K1-200m women. and will try the Olympic qualifiers this week. Obviously there no big chane of success, she does not have the speed and strength against other trained and established athletes, but why not in Paris 2024 ? All in all, a quota from Szeged may be a bit hard to obtain, if you ask me to bet, I would say Matej Rusnák in M-C1 should be our biggest chance here though Live stream

+ 3 from Teams ? so basically 11 duets will qualify from Barcelona, right ?

I almost choked myself when I saw this news while eating my dinner.... Historic debut of Diving in any competition of all history was made by this girl from Seattle of all places No worries it is in english

Historic success for Naďa Daabousová, 7th place in singles is the best ever result of SVK Synchronized Artistic Swimming. However the championships ended in a disappointment for our team, since the duet failed to qualify from the qualifiers, not good sign, since they lost to teams they were aiming to battle for Tokyo against in the final qualifier...

Lukko Rauma won again. 2 goals in last 2 matches for Pavol Skalický, assist also for Kristián Pospíšil today, that is good for us. we really need scorers !!!

Round-Robin May 12th - May 15th, 2021 4 Nations, Round-Robin, the 1st Nation will be the Czech Hockey Games Champion Czech Republic Finland Russia Sweden Round-Robin Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Russia 6 - 4 Sweden Period-by-Period: 1-1, 3-1, 2-2 May 12th 2021, h. 16:00, O2 Arena, Praha Czech Republic 2 - 1 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-1, 1-0, 1-0 May 12th 2021, h. 20:00, O2 Arena, Praha Russia 1 - 4 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 1-3 May 13th 2021, h. 16:00, O2 Arena, Praha Czech Republic OT3 - 2 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-1, 2-1, Overtime: 1-0 May 13th 2021, h. 20:00, O2 Arena, Praha Sweden 3 - 2 Finland Period-by-Period: 1-0, 0-1, 2-1 May 15th 2021, h. 11:00, O2 Arena, Praha Czech Republic 4 - 0 Russia Period-by-Period: 1-0, 2-0, 1-0 May 15th 2021, h. 15:00, O2 Arena, Praha Round-Robin Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Czech Republic 3 3(1) 0(0) 9 3 +6 8 Sweden 3 1(0) 2(1) 9 11 -2 4 Finland 3 1(0) 2(0) 7 6 +1 3 Russia 3 1(0) 2(0) 7 12 -5 3

Qualified Nations Czech Republic Finland Russia Sweden Competition Format Round-Robin May 12th - May 15th, 2021 4 Nations, Round-Robin, the 1st Nation will be the Czech Hockey Games Champion

it seems that they started working together last year, specifically she has a pair of Italians actually coaching her together Marco Innocenti and Sandro Bellini. She claims that she is very satisfied with both of them, she feels very comfortable with them from professional and human side. In contrary of Sandro, Marco will even go as one of the chief trainers staff of our shooting team to Tokyo.

off topic. but talking about Italian shotgun, today I learned that Marco Innocenti will go to Tokyo as personal coach of Barteková and will serve as one of coaches of our shotgun team

and a brief return to After GB, Kazakhstan is the 2nd team to present its final roster for the upcoming WCh. They already named the complete 28 players roster which will fly to Riga. And there one huge surprise in the Yuri Mikhailis team. will have to play without their biggest star Nigel Dawes, the naturalized Canadian of Barys Nur-Sultan former Astana had to refuse the invitation due personal family reason. The team has 5 naturalized players, 3 and 2 , especially their goalie Henrik Karlsson is a monster, a very tall goal tender and very very good. As usual the skeleton of the team is composed by players of the only KAZ KHL team Barys Nur-Sultan, 5 players only play abroad in Russian KHL teams and one in the Russian lower VHL, the rest of the team are from the other local main clubs. All in all pending on the form of Karlsson, Kazakhstan should have some troubles to avoid last place in its group, the match against Italy should be interesting, without fear of relegation this year this may be a nice open match with free-minded players, this can be a fun game with a lot of goals, in the remaining games there may be a lot of goals too, but I am affraid mostly in their own net.

Jack Capuano was named as head coach of team will be assisted by Nate Leaman and Adam Nightingale. The 54 years old Capuano is assistant of Ottawa Senators coach and will serve in the USA hockey for 4th time. He already was head coach assistant at 2016 & 2017 World Champonships, in 2005 he coached the USA U18 NT at the 5 Nations Tournament. Chris Drury is again the GM of USA

TEAM KAZAKHSTAN Goaltenders: Henrik Karlsson (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Andrei Shutov (Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk) Nikita Boyarkin (Saryarka Karaganda) Demid Yeremeyev (HK Temirtau) Defencers: Darren Dietz (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Alexei Maklyukov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL, ) Ivan Stepanenko (Beibarys Atyrau) Jesse Blacker (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, KHL, ) Viktor Svedberg (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Yegor Shalapov (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Samat Daniyar (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Valeri Orekhov (Nomad Nur-Sultan) Kirill Polokhov (HK Tambov, VHL, ) Forwards: Roman Starchenko (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Yevgeni Rymarev (Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk, KHL, ) Anton Sagadeyev (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Pavel Akolzin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL, ) Alexander Shin (Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk) Sayan Daniyar (Nomad Nur-Sultan) Alikhan Asetov (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Dmitri Shevchenko (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Nikita Mikhailis (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Kirill Panyukov (Nomad Nur-Sultan) Dmitri Gurkov (Nomad Nur-Sultan) Curtis Valk (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Kirill Savitsky (Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk) Arkadi Shestakov (Barys Nur-Sultan, KHL) Artyom Petrov Likhotnikov (Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk)

There will be definitely no +20 goals defeat You won against France in the preparation, it is an opponent that is not always easy to beat. Plus a world championship match is still a world championship match, so I am not worrying about lack of motivation. Each scored goal and played match at this level is a feast. You have won your maintain in the top division fairly, so I am pretty sure the boys will want to enjoy the tournament and confirm that it was not a fluke. Well, you know, here in Slovakia, Italy has always been considered as a team of naturalized North Americans. (I will never forget how Rišo Lintner during one WCh, I can not remember which one it was, said that once at lunch when he did not find a place in the Teams hotel canteen, he sat down at a table with players wearing Italian uniforms and was surprised that they communicated with each other only in English during the whole lunch ) That stereotype has changed in recent years and today's Italian team built on its own players is much more sympathetic to our lay public.