Russia (bbabo.net) - The first semi-final pair of the hockey tournament was determined at the Beijing Olympic Games: one of the favorites of the competition - Finland - will meet on February 18 with Slovakia.

The Slovaks were the first in chronological order to play their quarterfinal match: Craig Ramsey's team defeated the United States in shootouts (3:2) and reached the semifinals of the Olympics for the second time in history.

In turn, the Finns confidently beat Switzerland (5:1), having already won the fourth victory in the competition in Beijing. By the way, the first of them "Suomi" won just in a duel with the Slovaks - 6:2. Then there were duels with Latvia (3:1) and Sweden (4:3), in which Finland bounced back from 0:3.

The Russian team also reached the semi-finals, having defeated the Danes today - 3:1. Aleksey Zhamnov's wards will compete with the winner of the Sweden-Canada pair (beginning at 16:30 Moscow time) for reaching the final.

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