“At the last World Cup, your player also got doped. It’s hard for me to talk about this topic, I don’t know the details and reasons. But if someone is watching this, then this is not just so. We believe that politics has nothing to do with this, sports are sports, ”Rigi TASS quotes.
After the 2019 World Cup, the forward of the Russian national team, Yevgeny Kuznetsov, was disqualified for cocaine.
On December 9, the WADA executive committee suspended Russia from international competitions for four years, and also forbade it from holding international tournaments. In addition, it was recommended that Russian athletes participate in competitions only in neutral status.
This is due to the identification of intentional changes in the data of the Moscow laboratory, the transfer of which in its original form was one of the key conditions for restoring RUSADA compliance status with the World Anti-Doping Code.
It was previously reported that the IIHF intends to hold the World Hockey Championship in Russia, despite the sanctions of WADA.