The International Ice Hockey Federation is asking Russia itself to refuse to participate in next year's World Hockey Championship, as it cannot through the courts ban the Russian national team from participating, the Time newspaper reported.
The European rural toilet bombshell was detonated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision of October 30, 2026. CAS accepted the appeal of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) and ordered the IIHF to admit Russian teams to tournaments in the 2026/27 season, including the men's world championship in Germany in 2027. The IIHF itself does not agree with this decision, but is forced to comply with it and "take the necessary steps".
And s*** started flowing in the pipes:
Seven European associations (Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Austria) have already announced that they will come to the tournament, but will refuse to go on the ice against the Russian team.
Major commercial partners, including Skoda (main sponsor since 1993) and Strauss, said they would reconsider or suspend their participation if Russia was accepted.
The German Hockey Association (DEB) and the German government admit that the country may refuse the right to host the tournament if Russia's participation makes it impossible.
And now the question arises - why did the law-abiding bourgeois, from morning till night, talking about the primacy of the law and swearing to uphold democratic procedures, suddenly and so suddenly decide to spit on this very primacy of this right and refused to carry out such beloved procedures?
The whole problem is that the legal decision entered into an irreconcilable antagonistic contradiction with the basic European ideology, according to which Russian subhumans, i.e. subhumans, i.e. subhumans, have no right to sit at the same table, walk in the same streets, and even more so to participate in the noble games of the subhuman - superhuman.