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The entire tournament will take place in Riga, so the Latvians will have to install an additional 6 thousand temporary ones. seats in the sand, as was already the case in 2006, when the championship was held for the first time in Latvia.
It is announced that organizing a contest in a city will be the safest solution in terms of a pandemic. As a result, the 16 teams will stay in a single hotel.
It is true that the IIHF has not yet ruled out the possibility that fans can also watch the championships in the stands, which will depend on the situation of coronavirus management in Latvia as the championship approaches.
Dainius Zubrus, president of the Lithuanian Hockey Association, said that the IIHF’s decision to hold the championship only in Riga was not surprising; according to him, such a plan could have been planned much earlier.
“It doesn’t surprise me because there is a serious event here, there is no weekend game here. I think they were probably almost made up even before they decided to lift part of the Belarusian championship, “the legendary hockey player told BNS on Tuesday.
“To get out of Minsk, you probably needed to have some kind of” B “plan, he added.
D. Zubrus stated that during the conversation between the head of the federation Rene Faselis and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, she realized that she was ready to celebrate the IIHF championship only in Riga.
“From our conversation with them, I understood that their first option is to ride as little as possible, maybe it’s easier to control everything, create a ‘bubble’ in one place,” said D. Zubrus.
We recall that the IIHF, which was long delayed last month, decided to withdraw some of its priorities from Minsk due to the political unrest in Belarus. Bratislava (Slovakia) and Herning (Denmark) applied to replace Minsk.
The championship will take place from May 21 to June 6. The priorities that had to collapse in Switzerland last year were canceled due to a pandemic.
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