Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Feb 10, 2026 (AFP) - IOC allows Ukrainian athlete to wear black armband at Olympics for war dead

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2026-02-10

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday said a Ukrainian skeleton racer could wear a black armband at the Winter Olympics but confirmed it had banned his helmet that features Ukrainian sportspeople killed in the war wth Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had defended Vladyslav Heraskevych's right to wear the helmet, which carries pictures of dead Ukrainian sportsmen and women killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, at the......

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