11.05.2024 12:24 | Monitoring
Czech coach and former ice hockey forward Vladimír Růžička, who is a candidate for Jindřich Rajchl’s PRO party for the European Parliament, has let it be known that it bothers him that the Russians will not compete in the ice hockey world championship. Former hockey goalie Dominik Hašek, who is fighting against the participation of Russians in international competitions as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, speaks out against this.
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“It bothers me. The athletes are not to blame for the situation between Russia and Ukraine,” said pro CNN Prima News Růžička, saying that she regrets that Russia will be absent from the championship, which is held in the Czech Republic.
At the same time, he looks critically at the decisions of some hockey associations that decided not to call up players from the Russian KHL. “Athletes want to play sports, and that’s the only thing they care about,” stated Vladimír Růžička, who, together with Hašek, won a gold medal with the national team at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano.
It is Dominik Hašek who condemns similar benevolent attitudes towards Russian athletes. For example, he relied on the world’s best hockey league, the NHL, for not banning Russian hockey players from playing in it. “The NHL is a league that, by its stance, makes a huge advertisement for the Russian war and Russian crimes and is responsible for a lot of lost lives and material damage in Ukraine,” he said.
Dominik Hašek, like his colleague from the national team, decided to actively enter politics and run for TOP 09 in the Senate in the fall
The hockey championship in the Czech Republic started on Friday, and the Ostrava part was opened by the Slovaks against Germany. The fans of the Slovak hockey team arrived at it with Russian flags.
“I think that in Prague, our fans would have edited their visage on merit,” read some reactions on the Internet to photos of fans with Russian flags.
“It probably doesn’t fully describe the situation in Slovakia, but maybe our paths are diverging again,” commented former MEP and former dissident Jiří Payne on the photo of Slovaks with Russian flags.
He did so in reference to disputes between the Czech and Slovak governments, when Prime Minister Fiala decided in March to suspend joint consultations between the governments due to differing positions on foreign issues. For example, when Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accused the European Union in connection with the war in Ukraine that its only plan is to support mutual killing of Slavs, and Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár subsequently met in Turkey with Russian Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia invaded Ukraine militarily more than two years ago.
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author: Natalia Brozovská
