The favoured Russian women’s team will be able to get to European Championships in the U.K., but the men are not going.
by Google translation of the official notice in Russian:
Men’s Russian team, unfortunately, will not be able to participate in the European Championship, as there is the slightest opportunity to get to Birmingham because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, which resulted in the British sky was in a fog of volcanic dust. Told head coach, a member of the Board UEG, Andrei Rodionenko: “In this situation, due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland were all deleted from the British team. At the European Championships did not go as teams of Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia. There are reports that the Portuguese are also unable to get to the United Kingdom. It is known that Belgian national team traveled to Birmingham 11 hours, while the Spanish national team, this trip took 30 hours. Therefore, UEG and the Organizing Committee along with the national federations have done everything that the team could come to the continental championship. UEG will not apply any sanctions against those teams, who were unable to get to Birmingham. ”
As told Andrei Rodionenko, UEG collects a separate meeting on the issue of selection to the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, as the European Youth Championship is a qualifying for these games. UEG will do everything to athletes who have suffered from natural disasters, could pass a full selection at Youth Games to be held this summer. According to the Rodionenko currently FSGR and the organizing committee of women’s European Championship are doing everything that the Russian women’s team was able to easily get to England.
Thanks Kaoru-no-kimi.
Update – Portugal did find a way to get to the competition.
How many more will cancel due to travel problems?
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