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1956, Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy)

The seventh Winter Olympic Games were held in the Italian town of Cortina d "Ampezzo, at an altitude of about 1200 meters above sea level.
The USSR team performed for the first time at the White Olympics.
Representatives Soviet Union(53 people) participated in competitions in skiing, speed skating and ice hockey.
The USSR Olympic team was based on the CSK MO team.

"The USSR national team started the competition just brilliantly, winning both of their matches with a total score of 15: 4. The Swedes were defeated with a score of 5: 1, and our hockey players made a real headwash for the Swiss. The final result of 10: 3 in favor of the USSR national team looks like incredible, and then was a real reflection of things. "

Our team made its debut at the 1956 Italian Olympics and became an Olympic ice hockey champion for the first time in history. The invincible Canadians lost out of despair to the US team (1: 4), eventually becoming only bronze medalists. It was a real flop for the maple leaves.

The best player of the Soviet team in 1956 - Vsevolod Bobrov. The unique hockey player played both hockey and football superbly. Bobrov is the only athlete in the history of the Olympic Games, the captain of the USSR national teams that played at the Olympic Games: in 1952 - football, in 1956 - hockey.

The prize given to the most productive team of the Russian ice hockey championship is named after Vsevolod Bobrov. One of the divisions of the Continental hockey league... Built in Stupino Ice Palace sport is named after Vsevolod Mikhailovich.

WINNERS OF THE 1956 OLYMPIAD
Gold - USSR
Silver - USA
Bronze - Canada

OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS 1956
Nikolai Puchkov (1930 - 2005), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925 - 2003), Ivan Tregubov (1930 - 1992), Nikolai Sologubov (1924 - 1988), Genrikh Sidorenkov (1931 - 1990), Dmitry Ukolov (1929 - 1992), Alfred Kuchevsky (1931 - 2000), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922 - 1979), Alexey Guryshev (1925 - 1983), Viktor Shuvalov (born 12/15/1923), Valentin Kuzin (1926 - 1994), Alexander Uvarov (1922 - 1994), Yuri Krylov ( 1930 - 1979), Evgeny Babich (1921 - 1972), Yuri Pantyukhov (1931 - 1981), Nikolai Khlystov (1932 - 1999), Victor Nikiforov (born 04.12.1931). Head coach: Arkady Chernyshev (1914 - 1992).

1964, Innsbruck (Austria)

The Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck turned out to be record-breaking, both in terms of the number of participants (1,111 people) and the vastness of the program (34 kinds of competitions, 7 kinds of sports).
Our team won the second in Innsbruck olympic gold.
10 goals were scored by defenders, 15 by Yakushev's troika, 14 by Starshinov's troika, 11 by Almetov's troika. Canadians - the pioneers of hockey, for the first time remained outside the line Olympic medalists, finishing in fourth place.

The best players of the tournament:
Goalkeeper: S. Martin (Canada);
Defender: F. Tikal (Czechoslovakia);
Forward: B. Mayorov (USSR);

By the decision of the coaches of the USSR national team best striker prize handed over the best player Soviet team to Eduard Ivanov.

Fair Play Prize awarded to the Finnish national team that earned the least penalty minutes.

Games Olympic tournament served by Soviet arbitrators:
A. Starovoitov (5 matches) and V. Kuznetsov (3 matches).

Symbolic team of the tournament:
S. Martin (Canada); A. Ragulin (USSR) - R. Sayling (Canada); R. Bourbonne (Canada) - J. Cerny (Czechoslovakia) - V. Yakushev (USSR).

WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1964
1. USSR
Viktor Konovalenko, Boris Zaitsev, Alexander Ragulin, Eduard Ivanov, Viktor Kuzkin, Vitaly Davydov, Oleg Zaitsev, Konstantin Loktev, Viktor Yakushev, Vyacheslav Starshinov, Boris Mayorov, Veniamin Aleksandrov, Leonid Volkov, Anatoly Firsov, Alexander Almetov, Evgeny Petukhov, Stanis ...
2. Sweden
3. Czechoslovakia

1968, Grenoble (France)

WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1968
Gold - USSR
Silver - Czechoslovakia
Bronze - Canada

Olympic Champions 1968
Victor Zinger (born 10/29/1941), Viktor Konovalenko (03/11/1938 - 02/20/1996), Victor Blinov (09/01/1945 - 07/09/1968), Vitaly Davydov (born 04/03/1939), Victor Kuzkin (07/06/1940 - 06/24/2008), Alexander Ragulin (05/05/1941 - 11/17/2004), Oleg Zaitsev (08/04/1939 - 03/01/1993), Igor Romishevsky (born 03/25/1940), Anatoly Firsov (02/01/1941 - 06/24/2000) , Victor Polupanov (born 01.01.1946), Vyacheslav Starshinov (born 06.05.1940), Vladimir Vikulov (born 20.07.1946), Boris Mayorov (born 11.02.1938), Evgeny Mishakov (22.02.1941 - 30.05. 2007), Yuri Moiseev (07/15/1940 - 09/23/2005), Anatoly Ionov (born 05/23/1939), Veniamin Alexandrov (04/18/1937 - 11/06/1991), Evgeny Zimin (born 08/06/1947).

USSR national team goalkeeper Viktor Konovalenko became one of the world's first two-time Olympic hockey champions.

The best forward of games-68 Firsov became the most successful scorer of the World Championships three times in a row - from 1967 to 1969. At the Olympics, he scored 12 goals in seven games, while making two hat-tricks.
“Firsov had an amazing click force. And the goalkeepers felt bad when they saw the swing of the CSKA forward. "Ambulance"".

The best players of the Olympic tournament:
goalkeeper: K. Broderick (Canada),
defender: J. Horesovski (Czechoslovakia),
forward: A. Firsov (USSR).

Most Scoring:
A. Firsov (USSR) - 16 (12 + 4).
V. Polupanov (USSR) - 12 (6 + 6).
V. Starshinov (USSR) - 12 (6 + 6).
V. Vikulov (USSR) - 12 (2 + 10).
J. Golonka (Czechoslovakia) - 10 (4 + 6).

Coaches: Arkady Chernyshov, Anatoly Tarasov.

Symbolic team of the 1968 Olympics:
- goalkeeper: K. Boderick (Canada),
- defenders: L. Svedberg (Sweden), J. Suhi (Czechoslovakia),
- forwards: A. Firsov (USSR), F. Hakk (Canada), F. Shevchik (Czechoslovakia)

1972 Sapporo (Japan)

At the Games in Sapporo, the USSR national ice hockey team extended their triumph by winning the Olympics for the third time in a row. Our team defeated the Finns (9: 3), the USA (7: 2), Poland (9: 3) and Czechoslovakia (5: 2). And only once did Anatoly Tarasov's wards draw. It was in the second match, in which the Soviet players were opposed by the Swedes (3: 3). Champions and prize-winners of the 1972 Olympics
Gold - USSR
Silver - USA
Bronze - Czechoslovakia In Sapporo, the Vikulov-Firsov-Kharlamov trio played effectively. Of the 33 goals scored by the team at the Olympics, 16 (!) - almost half - were scored by them. Valery Kharlamov distinguished himself in each of the five matches, becoming the most productive at the Olympics - 16 points (9 + 7). gold medal in honor of the victory in the tournament became Valery's first success at the Olympic Games.

Most productive:
V. Kharlamov (USSR) 16 (9 + 7)
V.Nedomansky (Czechoslovakia) 9 (6 + 3)
K. Sarner (USA) 9 (4 + 5)
V.Vikulov (USSR) 8 (5 + 3)
K. Ahern (USA) 7 (4 + 3)
A.Maltsev (USSR) 7 (4 + 3) 1972 Olympic champions
Vladislav Tretyak (born 04/25/1952), Alexander Pashkov (born 08/28/1944), Vitaly Davydov (born 04/03/1939), Viktor Kuzkin (07/06/1940 - 06/24/2008), Alexander Ragulin (05/05/1941 - 11/17 .2004), Gennady Tsygankov (08.16.1947 - 02.16.2006), Vladimir Lutchenko (born 02.01.1949), Valery Vasiliev (born 03.08.1949), Igor Romishevsky (born 03.25.1940), Evgeny Mishakov (22.02 .1941 - 30.05.2007), Alexander Maltsev (born 04.20.1949), Alexander Yakushev (born 02.01.1947), Vladimir Vikulov (born 20.07.1946), Anatoly Firsov (01.02.1041 - 24.07.2000), Valery Kharlamov (01/14/1948 - 08/27/1981), Yuri Blinov (born 01/13/1949), Boris Mikhailov (born 06/10/1944), Vladimir Petrov (born 06/30/1947), Vladimir Shadrin (born 06/06/1948 ), Evgeny Zimin (born 06.08.1947). Coaches: Arkady Chernyshev, Anatoly Tarasov.
Illustrious mentors in last time prepared the team for the Olympics.

1976, Innsbruck (Austria)

At the opening of the 1976 Olympic Games, the USSR flag was entrusted to carry the goalkeeper of our hockey team, Vladislav Tretyak. The USSR national team won all six meetings at this tournament with a goal difference of "plus 42". This victory for our hockey players was the fourth in a row at the Olympic Games and the fifth in history. Olympic winners-1976
Gold - USSR.
Silver - Czechoslovakia.
Bronze - West Germany. Compared to the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, there have been many changes in the Soviet national team. Pashkov, Ragulin, Kuzkin, Davydov, Romishevsky, Vikulov, Firsov, Blinov, Mishakov and Zimin were absent. They were replaced by Sidelnikov, Babinov, Lyapkin, Gusev, Shalimov, Zhluktov, Kapustin, Aleksandrov. Olympic Champions 1976
Vladislav Tretyak (born 04/25/1952), Alexander Sidelnikov (08/12/1950 - 06/23/2003), Sergei Babinov (born 07/11/1955), Yuri Lyapkin (born 01/21/1945), Valery Vasiliev (born 08/03/1949 ), Alexander Gusev (born 21.01.1947), Gennady Tsygankov (16.08-1947 - 16.02.2006), Vladimir Lutchenko (born 02.01.1949), Vladimir Shadrin (born 06.06.1948), Alexander Maltsev (born 20.04 .1949), Viktor Shalimov (born 04/20/1951), Alexander Yakushev (born 01/02/1947), Victor Zhluktov (born 01/26/1954), Vladimir Petrov (born 06/30/1947), Valery Kharlamov (08/14/1948 - 08/27/1981), Sergey Kapustin (02/13/1953 - 06/04/1995), Boris Mikhailov (born 06/10/1944), Boris Alexandrov (11/13/1955 - 07/31/2002). Most Scoring
V. Shadrin (USSR) 14 (10 + 4)
A. Maltsev (USSR) 14 (7 + 7)
V. Shalimov (USSR) 14 (7 + 7)
A. Yakushev (USSR) 13 (4 + 9)
E. Künhackl (FRG) 11 (6 + 5)
V. Zhlutkov (USSR) 11 (2 + 9)

1984, Sarajevo (Yugoslavia)

Soviet hockey players won the 1984 Olympics brilliantly - seven wins in seven matches, 48 ​​goals and only five missed! And the main rivals who reached the final four - the national teams of Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Canada - were defeated with a total score of 16: 1.

Losers in the last tournament (1980) when world championship ours did not take place, the Soviet hockey players were looking for a meeting with the offenders - the Americans. But by the will of fate, the latter avoided an unpleasant match for themselves. At the preliminary stage, we got with the Americans in different subgroups. And then they put a symbolic pig on us by simply not making it to the final tournament.

Winners of the 1984 Olympics
Gold - USSR.
Silver - Czechoslovakia.
Bronze - Sweden.

Olympic Champions 1984
Vladislav Tretyak (born 04/25/1952), Vladimir Myshkin (born 06/19/1955), Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (born 03/13/1955), Andrey Khomutov (born 04/21/1961), Nikolai Drozdetsky (06/14/1957 - 11/24/1995 ), Vyacheslav Fetisov (born 04/20/1958), Alexander Gerasimov (born 05/19/1959), Alexey Kasatonov (born 10/14/1959), Vladimir Kovin (born 06/20/1954), Alexander Kozhevnikov (born 09/21/1958 ), Sergey Shepelev (born 13.10.1955), Vasily Pervukhin (born 01.01.1956), Sergey Makarov (born 19.06.1958), Igor Larionov (born 03.121960), Vladimir Krutov (born 01.06.1960), Alexander Skvortsov (born 28.08.1954), Sergei Starikov (born 04.10.1958), Igor Stelnov (12.02.1963 - 24.03.2009), Viktor Tyumenev (born 01.06.1957), Mikhail Vasiliev (born 03.06.1962 ).

Coaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Vladimir Yurzinov

1988, Calgary (Canada)

Another triumph of the USSR national team. Winners of the 1988 Olympics:
Gold - USSR.
Silver - Finland.
Bronze - Sweden. The current famous coaches shone in the USSR national team. The future coach of Dynamo Moscow Andrey Khomutov, President hockey CSKA Vyacheslav Fetisov, Main coach Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov. Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Valery Kamensky demonstrated a fantastic game at the Olympics. Olympic Champions - 1988:
Sergey Mylnikov (born 06.10.1958), Ilya Byakin (born 02.02.1963), Igor Stelnov (12.02.1963 - 24.03.2009), Vyacheslav Fetisov (born 20.04.1958), Alexey Gusarov (born 08.07.1964 ), Alexey Kasatonov (born 10/14/1959), Sergey Starikov (born 12/04/1958), Vyacheslav Bykov (born 07.24.1960), Sergey Yashin (born 03/06/1962), Valery Kamensky (born 04/18/1966 ), Sergey Svetlov (born 01.17.1961), Alexander Chernykh (born 12.09.1965), Andrey Khomutov (born 21.04.1961), Igor Larionov (born 03.12.1960), Andrey Lomakin (03.04.1964 - 09.12 .2006), Sergei Makarov (born 06/19/1958), Alexander Mogilny (born 02/18/1969), Anatoly Semenov (born 03/05/1962), Alexander Kozhevnikov (09/21/1958), Igor Kravchuk (09/13 .1966), Vladimir Krutov (born 01.06.1960). Head coach - Viktor Tikhonov, coach - Vladimir Yurzinov.

1992, Albertville (France)

1804 athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of 65 countries of the world arrived at the XVI Winter Olympic Games in Albertville. It was record number participants in the entire history of the Winter Olympics. A few months before that, the USSR collapsed.
Questions immediately arose about the status of the team, its funding, recruiting, preparation and participation in the Olympics. Finally, it was decided that the Olympic team of the former USSR will act as a united team of the Commonwealth of Independent States - CIS under the Olympic flag. In honor of the winners and prize-winners from the CIS team, the olympic flag... The CIS team did not have a guarantee cash contribution to make it to the French NOC for participation in the Olympic Games, as well as to send it to Albertville. In the end, these problems, which had never arisen before, were resolved and the team of the former USSR ended up at the 1992 Olympics. best hockey players the former Soviet Union did not find these events in their own country, because they had already begun to conclude lucrative contracts with Western clubs, long before the official collapse of the USSR. During the games in Calgary four years ago, many predicted that the stars of the USSR youth team: Alexander Mogilny, Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Bure would become the next great three of the Soviet Union in 1990. But by the time the games began in Albertville, all three had already played in the National Hockey League.

In the 1989 offseason, officials from the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation let many hockey players go west. Over the next two seasons, 34 players left the Soviet Union. By the 1991-92 season, 23 more national team players had left the country, including Valery Kamensky, Vladimir Konstantinov and Vyacheslav Kozlov.

The CIS ice hockey team was staffed with young little-known players, as all the leading players went overseas to play for various professional NHL clubs. As a result of preliminary competitions, in which 12 teams took part, teams from the USA, Sweden, Canada and the CIS managed to make their way to the semifinals. Athletes hockey team The CIS unexpectedly easily beat the leader of the first preliminary group in the semifinals of the leader of the first preliminary group, the USA team with a score of 5: 2, and in the final of the Canadians with a score of 3: 1. This victory was the last for the USSR / CIS / Russia national teams in the Olympic Games. the last for the national team of Czechoslovakia, already at the next Olympics, this union split into two independent states - the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

WINNERS OF THE OLYMPIAD-1992
Gold - CIS
Silver - Canada
Bronze - Czechoslovakia

CIS national team:
Mikhail Shtalenkov, Andrey Trefilov, Nikolay Khabibulin, Darius Kasparaitis, Dmitry Mironov, Igor Kravchuk, Sergey Bautin, Dmitry Yushkevich, Alexey Zhitnik, Vladimir Malakhov, Sergey Zubov, Andrey Khomutov, Vyacheslav Bykov, Yuri Khmilyov, Andrey Kovalenko, Vyacheslav Davaydov , Alexey Kovalev, Alexey Zhamnov, Sergey Petrenko, Nikolay Borshchevsky, Igor Boldin, Vitaly Prokhorov.

Coaches: Viktor Tikhonov, Igor Dmitriev.

Blinov's throw, crazy in strength, was legendary, they said that the speed of his puck could reach more than 200 kilometers per hour, and all rivals were afraid of his power moves. In 1966-1968, the Spartak pair of defenders Blinov - Makarov was the strongest in the USSR, in one season they hammered 17 goals each - a fantastic indicator for defense players. Victor's finest hour came at the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble. In seven matches, he scored four goals, and in decisive meeting scored 3 (1 + 2) points with the Swedes.

Unfortunately, this was the first and last major tournament for Blinov. Six months later, he was gone. On vacation, Victor had a heart attack, but he did not pay attention to it. Returning to Moscow, he immediately joined in training process... On July 10, he went to his last basketball class. Fall, blood ... and death. Blinov was 23 years old.

Sergey Kapustin

At 23, he already played in the super series with NHL clubs and won the Olympics. A year later, in May 1977, Viktor Tikhonov came to Kapustin's apartment and called him to CSKA. Sergei resisted for a long time, not wanting to leave his relatives "Wings of the Soviets", but in the end he agreed. On next year at the World Cup, he scored the most memorable goal of his career. Kapustin started with the puck from his own zone, cold-bloodedly circled almost all Canadians, and then performed an elegant pirouette in front of the goalkeeper Bouchard, which caused him to fall on the ice, and even then Soviet hockey player sent the puck into an empty net.

In 1980, a huge tragedy happened in the hockey player's family. His four-year-old son died of pneumonia. After three years at CSKA Kapustin moved to Spartak. At the age of 33, he retired and left for Austria, where he was a playing coach for a top division club for two years. In the 90s, he was not very much in demand in hockey.

One hot summer day I swam in a pond and cut my hand. The result is blood poisoning. The doctors could do nothing, and on June 4, 1995, he died. Kapustin was 42 years old.

He was one of the best Soviet goalkeepers in the mid-80s. At the age of 16 he played in SKA with Boris Mikhailov. At 19 he made his debut in the national team, and at 20 became its main goalkeeper. In 1986, in Moscow, 20-year-old Belosheikin became the world champion and the best goalkeeper tournament, two years later in Calgary - the Olympic champion. Everyone predicted him brilliant career and the title of the second Tretyak. But it didn't work out that way.

Even in his youth, the hockey player became addicted to alcohol. Due to repeated violations of the sports regime, in the fall of 1989 he was expelled from CSKA. No team wanted to invite him. His wife left Eugene, and his father was shot dead in a St. Petersburg cafe. He stopped communicating with old friends and was rumored to be selling things in the market. On November 18, 1999, Eugene could not stand it. At first he tried to open his veins, and then he hanged himself. The 33-year-old ex-goalkeeper was found dead in an apartment in St. Petersburg. The police stated the fact of suicide.

Stephen Liv

His real name is Patrick Sludge. He was born in Poland, and immediately after birth he ended up in an orphanage. Swedish family Jens and Anita Liv adopted the baby when he was two years old. The new parents gave him a new name: Stefan David Patrick Liv. He started his goalkeeper career with the XB71 team, from where he was called up to the national team for the first time. In 2006, he won Olympic gold with the Swedish national team, and then left for the NHL. He never played a single match for Detroit and returned to Sweden. In May 2010, he signed a contract with Siberia, and a year later he moved to Lokomotiv, for which he never played. In the summer of 2011, Stefan and his girlfriend Anna played a beautiful wedding. And three months later, during takeoff, the plane of the Yaroslavl team, in which Liv was, crashed.

Nikolay Drozdetsky

The famous striker was born in Kolpino, a suburb of St. Petersburg. First he played football as a goalkeeper, then switched to hockey. At the age of 18, he won the junior world championship as a defense player (he shone together with Fetisov). However, later the head coach of SKA Nikolai Puchkov put Nikolai on the attack, and there the young man began to succeed brilliantly. Fans instantly christened him Drozd, and the audience fell in love with him for his beautiful individual game. Tikhonov personally invited Drozdetsky to CSKA.

In Moscow, the forward continued to shine, and successfully played in the 1981 Canada Cup. Three years later he won Olympic gold. Drozdetskiy was a versatile hockey player, who knew how to work out in defense, and go out in unequal compositions, and score at the right time. In 503 matches of the USSR championship, he scored 252 goals - an incredible figure! In 1987 he returned to SKA, at the same time doctors discovered he had diabetes. But Nikolai did not give up hockey, but went to play in Sweden. At the end of November 1995, he came to St. Petersburg to visit his mother. At night, Drozdetsky suddenly became ill - a diabetic coma came. The doctors were already unable to help ...

Valery Kharlamov

Everyone in Russia seems to know his name. And not only because of the movie "Legend No. 17". Kharlamov has long become a symbol of Soviet hockey, its main star. The most strengths Valeria had excellent technique, impeccable skating, puck possession, bright striking qualities. Eight times Kharlamov became world champion, twice climbed to the highest step of the Olympic podium. And his goals against the Canadians during the 1974 Super Series? Masterpieces!

The life of the idol of millions of Soviet boys ended abruptly. At 33 years old. In 1981, Tikhonov did not take him to the Canada Cup, and Valery stayed in Moscow. On August 27, together with his wife Irina, he died in a car accident on the Leningradskoe highway. Last year, a monument to Kharlamov was unveiled on the Luzhniki Walk of Fame.

Theo Fleury

“I went on a three-month spree. Me and mountains of cocaine. And no one else and nothing else. At night I would run out into the desert and yell at the trees. Three months later I completely lost my mind ... I came home and put the pistol with the cartridge on the glass coffee table near the sofa ... ", - wrote Olympic champion and Stanley Cup winner Theo Fleury in his autobiography.

He had a bright and eventful career. As one of the shortest hockey players in the NHL, Theo played aggressive and power hockey without fear of using dirty tricks. Fleury spent 11 seasons at Calgary, in two of which he was the team captain. In the NHL played 1084 matches in which he scored 1088 points.

After winning the Salt Lake City Olympics, his career began to decline. Drugs and alcohol took first place in the life of an attacker. Theo later admitted that one of the reasons for his problems was sexual abuse by his child coach Graham James. Having quit drugs and alcohol, in 2009 Fleury released his autobiography "Playing with Fire", in which he told horrible story from his youth and how he managed to get out of a terrible depression in last years career.

Mark Wells

Mark participated in the famous Miracle On Ice, a match at the Lake Placid Olympics in which the US team beat the USSR team to win gold medals. These Games remained the only one major tournament in Wells's career. After the Olympics, he was unable to start playing in the NHL, spent two years in the lower American leagues and retired.

After retiring from hockey, Mark worked as a manager at a restaurant in Michigan. Lugging a heavy crate of groceries, Wells broke his spine. After an 11-hour operation, doctors announced that he had a rare degenerative spinal disease. A terrible diagnosis forced the ex-hockey player to leave work, undergo several more operations and be chained to a hospital bed for a long time. Nevertheless, before the Salt Lake City Olympics, Mark managed to organize with his partners in the US national team, which won in 1980, a friendly match, in which he even played several shifts.

In 2010, due to the huge costs of treatment, Wells started financial problems. He sold his gold Olympic medal for 40 thousand dollars, having managed to pay for operations and medical procedures.

Why did Tikhonov replace Tretyak? American students "stole" gold from the USSR

The loudest defeat in the history of Soviet hockey occurred at the Lake Placid Olympics. In the United States, this match is called "a miracle on the ice."

Jimmy Craig

The fate of another participant in the "Miracle on Ice" turned out to be difficult. In the match with the USSR, Craig made 36 saves, allowing his team to stay in the game and ultimately gain the upper hand. The following season, he played in the NHL for Boston, however, played only 23 games. In May 1982, Jimmy was in a car accident near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The passenger of the other car died, and Craig was initially blamed for the incident. A hooliganism charge was soon added to the case for an incident three weeks earlier. Neither alcohol nor drugs were found in the hockey player's blood. A few months later, he was eventually acquitted on all counts. Craig retired in 1984 and then worked as a Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planner. In 1999, he became one of the first representatives of the 1980 championship team to be inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

The fate of Forsberg cannot be called completely tragic. He is one of three hockey players in history who won the Olympics, the World Championship and the Stanley Cup at least twice (besides him, only Larionov and Fetisov succeeded). Peter finished playing until he was almost 40 years old, and now he lives in Sweden. However, for most of his career, the Swedish striker suffered from severe injuries... Starting in the 1995/96 season, lower leg and ankle problems, aggravated by complications, interfered with the game. Every month Peter tried about 60-70 (!) Pairs of skates, and from time to time his legs swelled so much that he could not put them on. To this were added other misfortunes: rupture and dysfunction of the spleen, dislocation of the wrist, fracture of the arm, eternal stretching of the groin rings. But, overcoming all adversity, Forsberg managed to become one of the greatest hockey players in the history of Sweden.

The 24th Winter Olympics will be held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in the capital of China - Beijing. As part of the Olympics, a hockey tournament will take place, the matches of which will be held on the ice of a converted basketball hall, built for the Olympic Games-2008 and on the arena of the Capital Sports Palace.

Participants

12 hockey teams will take part in the hockey tournament - these are the 8 best teams according to IIHF rating after the 2020 World Cup, the Chinese national team as the host country for the Winter Olympics and the 3 teams that won the Olympic qualification.

Tournament table

On group stage the national teams will be divided into three groups of four teams, each playing three matches - with each in its own group. Group winners, plus one team showing best result among the teams that did not take the first places in the groups, they immediately go to the quarterfinals. The remaining 8 teams for reaching the quarterfinals play in qualifying round, whose pairs are formed according to the principle of the highest with the lowest in the overall rating.

Beijing was chosen as the host city winter olympiad at the session of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) in July 2015. The Olympic emblem is a Chinese character, top part which symbolizes the movements of the skaters, and the lower part symbolizes the skier's posture. The ribbon in the middle symbolizes mountain ranges, stadiums and ski slopes, as well as the fact that the Olympics will be held during the Chinese New Year.