Former general manager of the Russian national ice hockey team Andrei Safronov, commenting on the cancellation of the World Youth Championship due to the coronavirus, said that the tournament organizers were not ready for such a situation. At the same time, he stated that it is impossible to be fully prepared in a pandemic.

“The guys went through all the quarantines, met all IIHF requirements, sat in isolation, played in a bubble. This is the kind of infection that exists today - God forbid, that it ends faster. I think the organizers did not expect such a seriousness of the situation. The gameplay began, and what they feared was what they got. The fact that the organizers were not ready is unambiguous. But this is an epidemic - how else can you prepare for it? I think the same Michkov was vaccinated, and everyone else. You see, our tests show that he has nothing, and foreign ones reveal the "crown," Safronov said.

At the World Youth Championship, the Russian national team managed to play two matches, losing to Sweden 3: 6 and beating Switzerland 4: 2. At the same time, in the failed game against Slovakia, the Russian team was awarded a technical defeat due to the fact that Matvey Michkov passed a positive test for coronavirus.

Earlier, the head coach of the Russian national team, Sergei Zubov, spoke about the cancellation of the MFM-2022.

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