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Ukrainian Trains in Helmet Honoring Fellow Athletes Killed in War. IOC Says It's Banned for Race
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said Tuesday he still wants to compete at the Milan Cortina Games wearing a helmet that commemorates athletes from his country who were killed in the war...

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Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych trains again in banned helmet, despite IOC ruling
Winter Olympics 2026: IOC bans two Ukrainian athletes from wearing helmets focusing on war
'look surreal' from Ukraine, artist behind war dead helmet says
Ukrainian artist Iryna Prots watches the Winter Olympics in the rare moments she has power at home, but the creator of skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych's banned helmet depicting Ukraine's war dead...

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Ukrainian star DEFIES Olympic bosses by wearing banned helmet honouring athletes killed in Russian war and vows to continue 'as a matter of principle'
Ukrainian risks Winter Olympics disqualification over helmet protest after IOC threat
IOC bans Ukrainian Olympian’s helmet honouring war-fallen athletes
The helmet features “figure skater Dmytro Sharpar, who was killed in combat near Bakhmut, Yevhen Malyshev, a 19-year-old biathlete killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv, and other Ukrainian athletes wh...

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Ukraine's Heraskevych says he will compete in banned helmet, defying IOC
IOC threatens to ban Ukrainian Olympian over helmet he refuses to take off

Despite any Olympic fallout, Ukrainian skeleton athlete has delivered his message

Should he be disallowed from competing on Thursday, he will be remembered in Ukraine as an athlete who took a bold stand.

Ukrainian sports minister decries signs IOC may soften restrictions on Russian athletes

Ukraine's sports minister has decried a potential softening of restrictions against Russian athletes where they might ultimately be able to compete in the future under their national flag rather than as "Individual Neutral Athletes.

‘We can’t win this alone’: Ukraine’s flag bearer urges world not to forget war, hints at protest over IOC’s neutral policy

Ukraine’s Winter Olympics flag bearer Vladyslav Heraskevych says that his teammates could stage protests at the Milan Cortina Games over the decision to allow neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete in Italy.