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Latvia Going Solo for Ice Hockey World Championship

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(ATR) Latvia will host the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on its own. The overseas Ice Hockey Federation Council demonstrated on Tuesday that Riga, Latvia has long gone from co-host to sole host after Minsk, Belarus turned into removed as co-host for the match last month. The IIHF Council determined that, given the COVID-19 pandemic, &quot;keeping all teams in Riga all the way through the event and fending off trip between two host countries is the safest and most competitively priced way to operate the event&quot;. The determination become reached following a review system by way of the IIHF workplace, which additionally examined internet hosting offers from Bratislava, Slovakia, and Herning, Denmark. &quot;i would like to thank our participants from Denmark and Slovakia for his or her willingness to anticipate internet hosting duties for the area Championship on such short observe,&quot; stated IIHF President Ren&eacute; Fasel in an announcement. &quot;but subsequently the Council believes that conserving the entire match in a single country enables us to be flexible. we can find low-cost options to enforce a bubble thought, but also we are able to put ourselves in a capable position to welcome lovers to the area Championship whether it is secure to achieve this.&quot; the brand new plan for the tournament, in order to run from may 21-June 6, would permit for a bubble to be installation with relative ease. All sixteen of the participating teams may be staying in the same hotel. both venues, enviornment Riga and the Olympic sports Centre, are about a hundred and fifty meters aside. The Daugava Ice Rink, approximately 10 minutes from the venues, will serve as the follow area with two ice sheets. it is at present beneath development and scheduled to be comprehensive through the end of March. The IIHF says that may still the COVID-19 situation in Latvia enhance to the aspect that spectators would be allowed to attend the video games, the federation in conjunction with the native Organizing Committee could be organized to initiate a ticketing present inside three days of receiving executive approval to host fans in the venues. The IIHF Council last month withdrew the experience from Belarus and its authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko because it changed into &quot;inconceivable to ensure the welfare of teams, spectators and Belarusian officials&quot;. IIHF companions Skoda, Nivea and Liqui Moly had threatened to pull their sponsorships if the IIHF kept the event in Belarus amid the political turmoil that started in August after Lukashenko become re-elected president in what's considered a rigged vote. within the ensuing months, calls to strip Belarus of co-hosting due to human rights abuses against athletes and political discrimination with the aid of the Lukashenko executive had grown increasingly louder. Latvia in the past hosted the event by itself in 2006. Written by using Gerard Farek For popular feedback or questions,click on here. Your most excellent source of news concerning the Olympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribers only.

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