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Ukraine outraged over Olympic ban on athlete honouring war victims

Ukraine has voiced outrage over a decision from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bar their skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych from competing at the Milan/Cortina Games over a helmet dis...

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Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych out of Winter Olympics because of banned helmet honoring war dead

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2026 Winter Olympics: Ukraine skeleton racer banned for wearing helmet honoring victims of war

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Zelensky accuses Olympics of ‘playing into Russia’s hands’ after Ukraine athlete disqualified

Vladyslav Heraskevych has this morning made a dramatic last-gasp appeal to the International Olympic Committee to allow him to wear his “memory helmet” in the men’s skeleton competition.

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Milano Cortina curbs on-stage curbs emotion

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The war dead pictured on banned Ukrainian athlete's helmet

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Ukrainian Skeleton Racer Banned from Competing in 2026 Winter Olympics Over Helmet of Athletes Who Died in War

Heraskevych's helmet depicts Ukrainian athletes who have been killed in Russia's invasion of his country.

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'The price of our dignity': Ukraine athlete disqualified from Olympics over memorial helmet

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Banned Ukrainian Olympian gets ultimate honor from President Zelenskyy

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What Ukrainian athletes and leaders say about the IOC and Heraskevych

On Feb. 12, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych just before the start of competition at the 25th Winter Olympic Games in 2026. The reason was a “memory helmet” featuring photos of Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia.

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Olympic boxing at Paris 2024: Biggest stories, replays, medal results, top athletes, highlights

Across the 13 contested boxing events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Uzbekistan and China were the big winners. At the end of these Games, Uzbek boxers struck gold in five out of the seven men's categories contested. The biggest winner of all? Uzbekistan's super heavyweight (92+kg/202+) Bakhodir Jalolov. (We mean that in the most literal sense.)