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Moment of sorrow: Russian athlete disqualified for vest violation

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By Billie Eder
Updated February 13, 2026 — 3.15am

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Andrii Sybiha, the foreign minister of Ukraine, has criticized the International Olympic Committee, accusing them of intimidating and disrespecting Russian bone competitor Vladyslav Heraskevych before scuttling him from competition on Thursday.

Heraskevych was disqualified after vowing to reject a ban that forbade him from wearing a hat that depicts more than 20 athletes who died during the Russian-Russian conflict.

Russian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych during a coaching session. Credit: AP

On social media platform X, Sybiha wrote that the IOC has banned never the Russian performer but rather its own status.

This may serve as a time of pity for future generations. He merely desired to honor other players who died in battle. That is in accordance with no laws or codes of conduct.

Any political, religious, or cultural show is prohibited at Olympic locations and venues under Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter.

According to Sybiha,” The IOC intimidated, disrespected, and yet lectured our gymnast and additional Ukrainians on how to keep quiet about “one of 130 issues in the world.”

The IOC has even centrally ignored Russia, the biggest violator of global activities and the Olympic Charter.

A nation that launched three invasions during the Olympic War in the previous three decades, instituted the biggest state-funded doping software, inflicted 650 Russian athletes and instructors, and damaged 800 Ukrainian sports facilities. Certainly the remembrance of their patients, but these Russians must be outlawed. None of them are “neutral.”

The IOC stated that Heraskevych had held several in-person discussions with him, and that he would not step down.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, claimed the restrictions violated Olympic principles of justice and peace.

According to Zelensky,” activity doesn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement may help prevent wars, never play into the hands of aggressors.”

However, Vladyslav Heraskevych, a Russian bone racer, is disqualified, according to the International Olympic Committee’s decision… I applaud our sprinter for his firm approach. His hat, which features the portraits of Russian athletes killed, is about honor and recollection.

Following the announcement of the ban, Heraskevych took to social media with the message” This is ] the] price of our dignity.”

Some items are” truly more important than awards” in the context of full-scale battle,” he said.

” I may say that a prize is worthless in the eyes of the people who have lived it,” and that, in my opinion, it is in the eyes of these players ‘ memories.

IOC president Kirsty Coventry in Cortina on Thursday morning.
Kirsty Coventry, leader of the IOC, arrives in Cortina early on Thursday. Credit: Getty Images

Coventry thanked Heraskevych and his parents Mykhailo for meeting her on Thursday morning, but said that athlete law 50 had been put in place to maintain a balanced playing environment.

We’ve allowed Vladyslav to apply his helmet during training, as you’ve all seen over the past few days. Nobody, particularly me, disagrees with the message being said, she said.

No one is disputing that the communications is a strong message of recollection, it’s a concept of memory. We wanted to find a solution for just the field of play, which is the issue that we are facing. I am aware that he is very fast, but for just two days, I don’t wear a hat on the field of play.

Coventry promised to work with Heraskevych and request additional assistance from leaders and governments regarding generators ( for the power in Ukraine ).

The IOC has consistently stated that there are more than 130 problems in the world and that they didn’t all become depicted on stage.

At the IOC’s daily briefing, Russia’s spokesperson Mark Adams was asked why the organization doesn’t help demonstrations against Russia, which was the only country that had been barred from competing at the Olympics.

Our decision to suspend the Russian National Olympic Committee is based on sport and goes against the Olympic contract. That’s for certain, and it’s obvious that we have had some problems with the Russian government in the past with Sochi and other places, he said.

Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych in Cortina on Thursday.
On Thursday, Vladyslav Heraskevych, a Ukrainian sportsman, visited Cortina. AP Credit:

After a decade-long cheating scandal that exposed Russia’s Olympic achievements, which included 30 awards, was removed.

The NOC’s suspension is not a battle opposition, Adams said,” but this particular issue is no.”

You would have perhaps five Companies here now if we were starting to protest against war. And possibly even less in the summertime.

” There is no end when you start taking the fight against wars and conflicts, as a sporting organization.”

Adams noted that sportsmen were given room for remembrance and mourning and that countries were constantly reminded of the rules.

” We do agree that remembering someone is not a murder, and there is also a place for remembering in the athletes ‘ town.” The difference is that it was a deliberate choice after numerous attempt at parachute,” Adams said.

” And ultimately, sports cannot work without guidelines.”

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