Ukrainian skeleton athlete urged by IOC to ditch helmet protest or face Olympics ban
- Posted on February 11, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Ukrainian skeleton athlete urged by IOC to ditch helmet protest or face Olympics ban

Vladyslav Heraskevych has been warned he faces disqualification from the Winter Olympics if he wears a ‘helmet of memory’ for his country’s war dead, but has hit back at the IOC for causing ‘a theater of the absurd’