UKRAINIAN skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych believes the decision to disqualify him from the Winter Olympics today was a victory for “Russian propaganda.”Heraskevych was ruled out of the event by the International Olympic Committee just over an hour before competition began, with his helmet, which features pictures of people killed in the war with Russia, judged to have contravened rules concerning statements in the field of play.

UKRAINIAN skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych believes the decision to disqualify him from the Winter Olympics today was a victory for “Russian propaganda.”

Heraskevych was ruled out of the event by the International Olympic Committee just over an hour before competition began, with his helmet, which features pictures of people killed in the war with Russia, judged to have contravened rules concerning statements in the field of play.

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