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Why a Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from the Winter Olympic over his “helmet of remembrance”

2026-02-12 63 Dailymotion

On Thursday morning in Milan, the IOC announced it had withdrawn the accreditation of Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych, in effect banning him from taking part in the Olympics due to his insistence of wearing a helmet depicting the images of Ukrainian athletes slain since Russia invaded his home country in 2022.