24-year-old Laura Cluze, who hails from Berlin, actually wanted to sit in a hotel room in the 13,000-resident community in the western Canadian province of True, Nova Scotia, on the second day of her quarantine. It was supposed to be a single room, with self-isolation planned for nine days.

Food must have been placed in front of his door, like team meetings, workouts should be through the zoom. Neither Salman River would have been visited nor would it have been possible to visit the Agricultural University. Here she could see directly whether the Berlin Wall actually contained six parts.

But then everything fell apart. Laura Cluj is now sitting in front of the television in her parents’ apartment in her old children’s room in Alt-Hönschönhausen. She is allowed to walk, shop and finally visit close relatives, for whom she has little time in recent years.

Instead of boarding a plane to Canada last Thursday, she boarded her car and drove from Fussen to Berlin. Half a day earlier, she received bad news from interim national coach Franziska Busch and team manager Julia Grenke. “Then it was quiet for some time, there was disappointment and questions about ‘why’ arose,” Cluze says.

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“We talked a lot after that. For some, this would be the first World Cup, so the disappointment was definitely huge, others wanted to play another World Cup again, so the disappointment was also a lot. Some had previously returned from injuries. We talked and tried to support each other. ”

“Women’s ice hockey is better”

Of the ten participating teams, many felt that some players in the German Ice Hockey World Cup team were just as bad. For example, Jill Saulnier of the Canadian team was so excited about her home World Cup that she closed her long post on the social media platform Instagram with the words: “I like this state a lot, but I love it so much Disappointed that we are this, dreams are looted. ”

Minnamari Tuominen wrote from the Finnish women in the same portal, “Women’s ice hockey deserves better. For example a plan b. “This is precisely the point at which the discussion ignites. In-charge of Hockey Canada, the association that wanted to host the tournament in conjunction with the World Ice Hockey Association IIHF, had their close trials and lengthy quarantine strategy for the tournament in Halifax and True based on U20 World Cup experiences. Built for the Juniors in Edmonton in late 2020.

And he was given a go-ahead in Nova Scotia for a long time. But when the number of cases there again increased, new travel restrictions were set for the province. As a result, Nova Scotia Premier Ian Rankin withdrew tournament approval for the event. “I greatly regret the short-term nature of this decision, but the rapid deterioration of the situation forces us to make this decision in the interests of the residents and participants of Nova Scotia,” he said.

“If it had been the men’s World Cup, it certainly would not have been canceled.”

A very harsh decision that wished for one or the other competition in the men’s arena in which athletes became infected. Now, as with all people, he meets ice hockey women, whose 2020 World Cup had to be canceled due to the Kovid-19 and the Olympic qualifying tournament for the Games in Beijing in 2022 is also coming this year after several postponements .
“I think we have very little background in how it actually went,” says Interim national coach Busch. “The big question is why there was not a specific Plan B.

We groomed ourselves in Füssen at the same time as the boys of U18 Juniors and expected what to expect and what to expect. Conditions were completely different between the United States and Canada. Perhaps it would have been the other way around. One does not know … ”
On Tuesday, the World Union IIHF and participating countries will be advised to proceed. Hockey Canada definitely wants to host the 2021 World Cup. At the beginning of the year, the date 20 to 30 August 2021 was already in the room.
Meanwhile, Laura Cluj will take a short break from the game and relax her body. And even if she can understand that the staging of the World Cup was halted in the health interests of many people and thinks it is right, she says: “If it had been the men’s World Cup, It certainly does not cancel out. “