Russia has already misplaced a handful of sporting occasions. Now its hockey league has misplaced a whole crew.
Dinamo Riga introduced Sunday that they've withdrawn from the KHL following the Russian invasion into Ukraine. The membership, situated in Riga, Latvia, is the second to depart the KHL after Jokerit, a crew in Finland.
“The choice to withdraw from the KHL has been made, thus expressing a transparent place of the membership administration,” chairman of the supervisory board J. Savickis mentioned in a translated assertion. “In such a army and humanitarian disaster, we don't see any alternative for cooperation with the Kontinental Hockey League.
The league’s Gagarin Cup playoffs are set to start out on March 1 following a pause. Three different golf equipment — Barys Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) and Kunlan Pink Star (China) — are situated outdoors of Russia.
It’s additionally doable Russia may lose internet hosting privileges for the 2023 World Junior Championships, and its crew might be kicked out of different IIHF competitions. TSN’s Gord Miller reported on Sunday that there was extensive help for eradicating Russia from IIHF occasions for the remainder of 2022 and for transferring the World Juniors.
Moreover, the Swiss Ice Hockey Affiliation referred to as for excluding the Russian and Belarusian hockey federations from the IIHF.
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