The youth team of Russia in hockey was removed from the flight from Canada

The Russian youth hockey team on Saturday could not fly to Europe from the Canadian Kalgary, where the World Cup in this age group was held. Players and coaches were not allowed to fly due to a violation of the mask regime and, as claimed, due to smoking when landing on a flight.

Together with the Russians, the Czech team was removed. The head coach of the Russian team Sergey Zubov said in the commentary “Match TV” that this happened due to the fact that some of the athletes from both teams wore masks incorrectly.

The manager of the Czech youth team of the Czech Republic Otakar Cherny said that the situation arose due to the behavior of Russian hockey players. According to him, the athletes drank too much alcohol and did not comply with hygienic rules, Sport.cz reports . One of the members of the Russian delegation smoked right in the landing sleeve on the road from the airport to the plane, he claims. Chekhov, according to him, was removed due to the fact that the crew could not distinguish them from the Russians.

Russian sports journalist Pavel Lysenkov said the Czechs were drunk. At the same time, the head coach of Russians Sergey Zubov smoked, a journalist in Telegram said . The same was said by the anonymous source of the Russian newspaper Izvestia.

The Russian team managed to fly out with the next flight. Czechs - exactly in a day. Zubov, commenting on the situation, said that he quit smoking three years ago. At the hockey site, players did not meet during the tournament: the competition was canceled due to mass infections of athletes with coronavirus.