Just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, who embody both good and evil, Latvian hockey is also a very multifaceted organism with a contradictory nature, which the sports media MVP already allowed its readers to see again last week, and will allow this one as well. About that and not only that – in the traditional Monday review.
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Weeded minds, money slavery and the stench of racism. Experts on the moral bankruptcy of hockey in Latvia
We realized that the heart of the Latvian hockey lion has been gradually ravaged by the gangrene of racism for many years already in the summer, when the domestic luminaries began to flow one after another in the same direction as the washing machines and toilet bowls stolen from Ukrainians, that is, to Russia. From a family where Juris Savickis is pouring vodka at one end of the table, and Aigars Kalvītis is spreading caviar on white bread at the other, perhaps it was naive to expect anything else – such a head, such a fish. The question is whether it really seems acceptable to everyone else sitting at the table. And – what will the until now almost or blindly faithful fan say about all this in the spring?
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First he broke the ceiling, now he is breaking the career. Georg Golovkov’s school of hockey survival
Not everyone is chosen as the captain of the team. Especially in the national team. As a junior, Georg Golovkov seemed to have the red carpet laid out for him to build a solid and successful career in professional hockey, but then the Lego blocks began to fall one by one. In the wrong moments, health broke, great opportunities slipped past the eyes like blurred landscapes through a train window, but this time the young attacker was not on the passenger list, but remained on the platform. The attempt to jump into the last wagon took place in the hockey province in Great Britain, but the stopcock was pulled off by Covid-19 – again at the most wrong moment. And suddenly, as if the promising hockey player found himself on a street corner.
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If even Spaniards can… the naturalization of European basketball’s ‘new old’ fashion irritates Latvia as well
The 2022 European Basketball Championship ended that week, during which more casual viewers could have many questions about countless brauns, bosts, tobies and other hired extras in the European national teams. A large number of national units did not even hide the fact that they deliberately targeted a useful American for short-term achievements. Before the next European Championship in Riga, one has to wonder if the Latvian national team will not be among the few who do not use this illogical advantage.
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Just last week, we found out what this year’s great success of the new generation in beach volleyball means for the future prospects of reaching this level in adult competition as well, we introduced the American beauty Ariana Celesti, who managed to become a millionaire in the UFC business as a ring girl, earning more than most MMA masters, as well as we recalled the beautiful story of swimming champion Johnny Weissmiller, who became the most recognizable Tarzan in the history of cinema.
What’s next for “MVP”
There will be an obituary for a classic sports game in Latvia, there will be a conversation with one of the biggest stars of Latvian sports, there will be an actual anatomy of a scandal and a portrait of a strong lady who is currently undertaking a very difficult mission in the domestic sports industry. Let’s accompany the legend on a well-deserved rest and interview a usually taciturn character from the Latvian basketball team.
