The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) council wants “clean” Russian athletes at the PyeongChang Olympics.
The federation issued a press release Tuesday, one week before the International Olympic Committee is due to decide on Russia’s participation in PyeongChang in February amid its doping scandal.
“We wanted to outline our position clearly to the IOC, that we are against a collective punishment approach that would unfairly punish many Russian athletes that had nothing to do with doping,” IIHF president René Fasel said in the press release.
Earlier Tuesday, it was reported that Canadian, Swedish, Finnish, Czech and Swiss hockey federations send a letter to the IIHF supporting Russian hockey participation in the PyeongChang Olympics.