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Ukrainian Olympian banned from competing over helmet honouring war dead
A Ukrainian skeleton racer has been banned from competing at the Winter Olympics after he insisted on wearing a helmet depicting athletes killed since Russia's invasion.
Vladyslav Heraskevych, 27, told reporters he would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. "It's hard to say or put into words.
It's emptiness," he said in response to the ban. "It really looks like discrimination because many athletes already were expressing themselves," he added.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had pleaded with Heraskevych to adhere to guidelines and avoid potential disqualification from the Games and the men's skeleton race on Thursday. It argued his "helmet of remembrance.
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