Olympics question

[smzimbabwe 218]

So I'm looking over the hockey rosters for various teams I generally root for, and something just popped in my head. Haven't heard anything in a while, but is Alex Ovechkin going to carry out his plan to play in these Olympics no matter what the Capitals of NHL say?

[Cosmic 6,531]

2 hours ago, smzimbabwe said:

So I'm looking over the hockey rosters for various teams I generally root for, and something just popped in my head. Haven't heard anything in a while, but is Alex Ovechkin going to carry out his plan to play in these Olympics no matter what the Capitals of NHL say?

I don't have a link handy, but I remember hearing on the Puck Podcast that he backed off his stance. He's not playing.

[IceCap 22,665]

On 2018-01-24 at 11:44 PM, smzimbabwe said:

So I'm looking over the hockey rosters for various teams I generally root for, and something just popped in my head. Haven't heard anything in a while, but is Alex Ovechkin going to carry out his plan to play in these Olympics no matter what the Capitals of NHL say?

It doesn’t matter. Russia’s been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics over doping. 

[RichO 548]

2 hours ago, Ice_Cap said:

It doesn’t matter. Russia’s been banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics over doping. 

 

Sort of. There will be a lot of "Olympic Athletes from Russia" participating. The "ban" is pretty flimsy.

[Kevin W. 1,996]

17 minutes ago, RichO said:

 

Sort of. There will be a lot of "Olympic Athletes from Russia" participating. The "ban" is pretty flimsy.

No, it's not. The Russian athletes who are competing are the ones who (as far as anyone can tell) didn't dope.

[IceCap 22,665]

31 minutes ago, RichO said:

 

Sort of. There will be a lot of "Olympic Athletes from Russia" participating. The "ban" is pretty flimsy.

Regardless, there won’t be a “Team Russia.”