Russia could return to the international sports scene, incoming Olympics president says
The Olympic committee banned Moscow from competing as a team in the 2024 Paris Olympics because of the country’s incursion in ...
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Playing hockey with Russians would be hypocrisy, not diplomacy
Moscow — then the capital of the sprawling ... Not long after the report of a possible hockey friendly, Russia struck Ukraine in the middle of the night, an attack in which Ukraine authorities ...
Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, according to ...
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Can hockey break the diplomatic ice between US and Russia?
Putin is a big hockey fan," Gary Smith ... The North American NHL cut ties with its Russian counterpart, the KHL, after ...
Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink
Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...
NHL Responds to Reported Plans for Matches Against Russian Teams
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Trump had "expressed support" for Putin's idea to hold ice hockey matches on U.S. and ...
From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 en route to chasing NHL history
He was a very, very bright young man in terms of his goal-setting for his life,” said Hockey Hall of Famer Igor Larionov, who met Alex Ovechkin as a teenager. “He was determined. He was one of the ...
After Putin's 2.5-hour call with Trump, some in Russia see a diplomatic victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin's call with U.S. President Donald Trump is being viewed as a triumph in Moscow and an ...
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From Moscow to Washington, how Alex Ovechkin became the Great 8 on the way to chasing NHL history
17, 1985, and coming of age just as the Soviet Union was giving way to a new Russia ... embraced hockey and showed he was good at it. When marketing executive Steven Warshaw went to Moscow ...