Top sports court rejects IIHF’s claim it ‘underestimated’ backlash to overturning Russia’s hockey ban

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has hit back at the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) claim that it “significantly underestimated” the backlash against its decision to overturn Russia’s ban from global competition. Like most sports federations, the IIHF banned its Russian member association following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and it has been rolling over that ban on a yearly basis ever since. But last week, in an update on the various appeals it was hea