Ukraine, Winter Olympics and Heraskevych

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Winter Olympics 2026: Ukraine luge team shows support for Vladyslav Heraskevych with post-race demonstration
Following its run in Thursday's luge relay competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Team Ukraine showed support for skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, with each member kneeling and raising their he...

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Race day arrives for Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych, who says he'll use banned helmet
2026 Winter Olympics: Ukraine skeleton racer banned for wearing helmet honoring victims of war
Ukraine's Heraskevych appeals Games ban with CAS, wants supervised run
Disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has appealed his Winter Olympics competition ban over a helmet depicting dead Ukrainian athletes with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CA...

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Ukrainian skeleton slider withdrawn from Olympics after ‘refusing to adhere’ to IOC rules on helmet honoring dead compatriots
Zelensky accuses Olympics of ‘playing into Russia’s hands’ after Ukraine athlete disqualified
Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026: Vladyslav Heraskevych Barred By IOC For His Controversial Helmet
The helmet of remembrance featured portraits of 24 Ukrainian athletes and children killed during the Russian invasion.

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Ukrainian Athlete Tests the Olympic Rules on Free Speech - and Gets Disqualified
Ukrainian Olympian banned from Winter Games over helmet showing compatriots killed in Russia's war

Ukraine's Sports Minister says Heraskevych decision unjust but team will remain at Olympics

Ukraine's Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi believes the decision to disqualify Vladyslav Heraskevych from his skeleton event at the Milano Cortina Games was unjust but told Reuters there was no question of his team pulling out of the Olympics.

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.
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Ukraine says Russia behind fake posts targeting Winter Olympics team

Ukraine blamed a Russian disinformation campaign Thursday after fake news posted online about its Winter Olympics team, including a story criticising an athlete disqualified for trying to highlight war deaths.

Ukraine's lone figure skater was exhausted worrying about his family. Now he's at the Olympics

Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak was exhausted last summer as he trained for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games

Ukrainian sports minister decries potential softening of restrictions against Russian athletes

Ukraine's sports minister 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.