MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russia to prepare for the Olympics, army clubs have delegated seven hockey players to the national team, according to the website of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation. The Beijing Olympics will be held from February 4 to 20. The final composition of the Russian team, which is to be named on January 23, will include 25 hockey players. The fully expanded composition of the Russian national team, which will begin preparing for the Olympics on January 17, is as follows: (both SKA), Timur Bilyalov (Ak Bars), Ivan Fedotov (CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Shugaev (Severstal);defenders: Dmitry Vishnevsky, Alexander Nikishin (both Spartak) , Vyacheslav Voinov (Dynamo), Alexander Yelesin (Lokomotiv), Artem Minulin, Egor Yakovlev (both Metallurg), Shakir Mukhamadullin (Salavat Yulaev), Daniil Pylenkov (SKA), Nikita Nesterov (CSKA) , Sergei Telegin («Tractor»), Semyon Chistyakov, Damir Sharipzyanov (both — «Vanguard»);forwards:Sergei Andronov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Pavel Karnaukhov, Sergei Plotnikov, Anton Slepyshev (all — CSKA) , Anton Burdasov, Nikita Gusev, Andrey Kuzmenko, Kirill Marchenko (all — SKA), Artem Galimov, Dmitry Voronkov (both — Ak Bars), Stanislav Ga Liev, Vadim Shipachev (both Dynamo Moscow), Arseniy Gritsyuk, Kirill Semenov (both Avangard), Alexander Kadeikin (Salavat Yulaev), Artem Anisimov, Artur Kayumov (both Lokomotiv), Vladimir Tkachev («Tractor»), Andrey Chibisov («Metallurg»).
