The topic has become a debate during the 2026 Milan Cortina Games amid the conflicts involving Russia and Israel.
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Banned Olympic skeleton racer gets $200k donation from president of Ukraine’s biggest soccer club
Vladyslav Heraskevych's "helmet of remembrance" was banned by the IOC, with the Ukrainian losing a subsequent appeal to CAS.
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych will not competeafter refusing a last-minute plea from the IOC to use a helmet other than the one that honors more than 20 of his country's athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia.
Vladysav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian skeleton racer disqualified from over his remembrance helmet, has received his country's Order of Freedom.
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