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Ukrainian skeleton athlete urged by IOC to ditch helmet protest or face Olympics ban

Heraskevych faces potential disqualification Athlete calls situation ‘theater of the absurd’ The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been warned that he faces disqualification from the Winter Olympics if he wears a “helmet of memory” for his country’s war dead when the men’s competition starts on Thursday. Heraskevych has continued to practise in the helmet,

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