"I believe, deeply, the IBSF and IOC understand that I'm not violating any rules,"
"Also, I would say (it's) painful that it really looks like discrimination because many athletes already were expressing themselves. ... They didn't face the same things. So, suddenly, just the Ukrainian athlete in this Olympic Games will be disqualified for the helmet."
"inconsistent with the Olympic Charter and Guidelines on Athlete Expression."
Vladyslav Heraskevych, a Ukrainian skeleton competitor and medal contender at the Milan Cortina Games, was removed from competition roughly 45 minutes before his race for refusing an International Olympic Committee request to switch a helmet honoring more than twenty Ukrainian athletes and coaches killed in the war with Russia. The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation told him that wearing the helmet was "inconsistent with the Olympic Charter and Guidelines on Athlete Expression." He had worn the helmet in training; the IOC offered alternatives such as a black armband or displaying the helmet off the ice. IOC President Kirsty Coventry met with him at the sliding center.
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