BEJING, 20 Feb. Russian hockey players failed to defend the title of Olympic champions at the Games in Beijing. In the final, the Russian men's team lost to the Finnish team with a score of 1:2 (1:0, 0:1, 0:1). Mikhail Grigorenko (eighth minute) scored against the Russians, Ville Pokka (24th) and Hannes Bjorninen (41st) scored against the Finns. The Finns became Olympic hockey champions for the first time. The Russians got silver — for the national team, this is the 32nd medal of the 2022 Olympics. In total, she has six gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze awards. At the group stage, the Russians beat the Swiss (1:0), the Danes (2:0) and lost to the Czechs (5:6 OT), after which they went directly to the quarterfinals from the first place, where they were stronger than the Danes (3:1). In the semifinals, the Russians outplayed the Swedes after eight shots in a shootout (2:1).
