Canada's Olympic Teams

[Hal Bond]

The Chess Federation of Canada is pleased to announce our National and Women’s Olympic Teams. In random order, they are:

Razvan Preotu
Eric Hansen
Aman Hambleton
Nikolay Noritsyn
Alexandre LeSiege

Women’s Team:
Svitlana Demchenko
Maili-Jade Ouellet
Qiyu Zhou
Agnieszka Matras Clement
Lali Agbabishvili

[Vladimir Drkulec]

Team captains will be Victor Plotkin for the national team and grandmaster Gergely Szabo for the women's team.

Hal Bond will be Head of Delegation/Delegate. FIDE is kindly paying a travel subsidy of 800 Euros to help pay for Hal's flight.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

Due to a family emergency and a change of job Alexandre Lesiege will not be able to attend the Olympiad.

After consultation with the organizers of the Olympiad we have been allowed to make a substitution less than 10 days before the start of the event and after the final date for roster changes. I am pleased to announce that grandmaster Evgeny Bareev will be the replacement player. We are now in scramble mode making transportation arrangements.

I would like to thank Evgeny Bareev for stepping in, in our moment of need.