BEIJING ¨C The coach of the Finland men¡¯s ice hockey team accused China of not respecting a player¡¯s human rights on Sunday as complaints about COVID-19 isolation protocols piled up at the Winter Games.
Finnish head coach Jukka Jalonen said Marko Anttila, a ninth-round pick of the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2004 NHL draft, was ¡°not getting good food¡± and was under tremendous mental stress.
¡°We know that he¡¯s fully healthy and ready to go and that¡¯s why we think that China, for some reason, they won¡¯t respect his human rights and that¡¯s not a great situation,¡± head coach Jalonen said on a Zoom call with media.
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