UPDATED: February 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM EST ZURICH — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season.

Russia is a traditional Olympic power in men’s hockey. The Soviets won gold seven times, as did the 1992 Unified Team (a group of athletes from Russia and four other former Soviet states) and ...

PARIS − Russian teams, including the country's powerful national ice hockey side, remain banned from competing at next year's Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics as part of sanctions imposed ...

If Russia is not permitted to compete in the Olympic tournament, the French national team will take its place. The 2026 Olympic Games will be held in Italy on February 6-22.

This comes after the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) announced last month that it would not be reintegrating Russia and Belarus club hockey teams into its championships for the 2025 ...

Russia won the silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Belarus have been banned from international ice hockey tournaments since then.