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Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych wears a helmet depicting Ukrainian sportsmen and women during the skeleton men's training session at Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo on February 10

Ukrainian skeleton slider disqualified from Olympics after breaking IOC rules on helmet honoring dead compatriots

By Patrick Sung Cuadrado, Aleks Klosok, Amanda Davies, Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for “refusing to adhere” to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athlete expression guidelines regarding his insistence on wearing a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine

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