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Norway qualified for the tournament and has said it still hopes to compete.<\/p>\n
The IIHF has not formally announced any changes to the tournament field. Its website continues to list Norway among the 10 participating teams.<\/p>\n
Hockey federations from several nations, including Finland, Sweden, Czechia and Norway, have said their teams will refuse to compete against Russian players.<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney said last week that Russian and Belarusian athletes could not compete in Canada while representing their countries as long as the war continues.<\/p>\n
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The government\u2019s earlier position allowed individual athletes to compete as neutrals, leaving open the question of whether a Russian team could participate under a neutral designation.<\/p>\n
Van Koeverden clarified Monday that the neutral designation applied to individual athletes, not teams.<\/p>\n
The government said its position would not change as long as Russia continues its war in Ukraine with Belarus\u2019s complicity.<\/p>\n
The world junior championship begins Dec. 26 in Edmonton and Red Deer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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