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Ukraine skeleton racer gifted $200,000 by Shakhtar Donetsk owner after Winter Olympics ban

Football club donation equal to prize money Ukraine pays gold medallists Heraskevych barred from racing while wearing ‘helmet of memory’ The owner of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk has donated more than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych. The athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Games before competing over the use of a

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Norway curling team bring party pants back to Winter Olympics for ‘one-game’ tribute

Curlers wear diamond-printed trousers to honour ‘Team Ulsrud’ Norwegian Olympic Curling Team’s Pants page has 360,000 followers Norway’s men’s curling team delighted supporters at the Olympics on Tuesday by reviving the famous red, white and blue-patterned trousers that became a sensation 16 years ago when they were worn by Thomas Ulsrud’s team. The eye-catching pants,

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Vinícius Júnior takes aim at racist ‘cowards’ after Benfica’s defeat by Real Madrid

Brazilian accuses referee of ‘poorly executed protocol’ Real Madrid eventually play on after 10-minute delay Vinícius Júnior declared that “racists are above all cowards [who] need to put their shirts in their mouth to demonstrate how weak they are” and attacked the failure of the referee to act after he was allegedly abused by Benfica’s

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