Hockey players of the Russian national team were forced to play in masks in the Olympics match

BEIJING, Feb 7 Russian and Canadian hockey players came out in medical masks on match of the group stage of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Group A meeting takes place on Monday. The game was originally supposed to start at 7:10 Moscow time, but the Canadian team did not enter the court at the specified time. The Russian team was waiting for their opponent on the court for 20 minutes, and then went to the locker room. According to TSN, the Canadian team wanted to wait for the results of tests for the coronavirus of Russian hockey players. Then it was announced that the meeting was postponed for an hour. Subsequently, the Canadians appeared on the ice, but all the players of both teams, as well as the referees, went to the match in medical masks. According to journalist Julia Stuart-Binks on her microblog on Twitter, the hockey players will play in masks until the results of the tests for the coronavirus of the Russian team are ready. The Canadians beat the Russians 2-0 during the first period. Prior to this meeting, the Canadian team had six points, the Russian team had three points.