Chinas face possible exclusion from the ice hockey tournament at next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics in spite of its host status because of the team’s “insufficient sporting standard.”
“This question really arises for the men’s team, not for the women’s team,” Luc Tardif, the new president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), said on Monday.
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