> The international ice hockey federation (IIHF) has said it will not hold this summer’s world championship in Belarus, amid concerns that it would be a propaganda coup for the country’s hockey-mad dictator, Alexander Lukashenko.
> In a statement, the federation said it had made the decision “in the face of the growing safety and security concerns related to both the rising political unrest and Covid-19”. Minsk and the Latvian capital, Riga, were due to co-host the tournament in May and June.
I used to watch #hockey on TV (Los Angeles Kings) until a community org was gifted some tickets when I was in high school. They took some low income kids from my part of Los Angeles County to see the Kings play. I was eagerly looking forward to it, but once I got there and saw just how many fights there were, I was bored. I lost all interest in hockey that evening.