The first participants of the Olympic Games returned to Ufa in Beijing

Tonight, on February 17, at the airport Ufa grand welcome of participating hockey players of XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing took place. Republic of Bashkortostan was represented at once by 7 hockey players: Veronica Korzhakova, Pechnikova Maria, Maria Sorokin, Olga Sosina, Shibanova  Anna, Maria Batalov, Paulina Luchnikov. In a hall of an arrival of Olympians met tens people: relatives, friends, fans, journalists, presented Minsport respubliki and HK "Agidel". Let's remind, in a starting match of a group stage the national team of ROC won a sure victory over the national team Switzerland with the score 5:2. In the subsequent matches...