Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych has been banned from the Milan/Cortina Olympics over a dispute concerning a helmet he wanted to wear at the skeleton competitioin to commemorate athletes killed in the war with Russia. A last-ditch effort by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry around an hour before the start of the event on Thursday in a meeting with Heraskevych at the sliding centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo failed to make him change his mind.
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