National Hockey League (NHL) has confirmed it will not send its players to the men’s ice hockey tournament at the Beijing Winter Olympics because of a surge in Covid-19 cases. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Olympic participation is no longer feasible with 50 league games postponed to date. The Games are scheduled to begin in China on 4 February, next year. The decision comes as a huge disappointment for players, who had negotiated a return to the Olympics into the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The NHL is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams, 25 in the United States and seven in Canada.
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