Milan-Cortina, Ukrainian skeleton athlete: ‘I haven’t broken any rules, I’ll carry on’

Milan, 13 February (LaPresse) – “To be honest, there were a few suggestions, and one was to bring a neutral helmet to use in the race. So my father would have taken away the helmet with the photos at the start and I would have put on another helmet. Then somehow the helmet would have been teleported to me at the finish line, so I could use it in the mixed zone. I also told her that okay, if you’re worried about the competition field, then I’ll try to be fast on the track so that no one can see me, and then they’ll look at me at the finish line or at the start. But suddenly, even that wasn’t a solution for Ms Coventry, and now we’re in this situation.” . So Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, disqualified from the Milan-Cortina Games after refusing the International Olympic Committee’s latest request to wear a helmet other than the one honouring athletes who fell in the war with Russia, met with journalists during a press conference at the Ukrainian Consulate General in Milan. ‘I believe I have not broken any rules, and I also believe that we have had all this attention over the last few days because people understand that we are on the right side, that we have not broken any rules, and I think that is the most important thing. I will move forward, and if the appeal to the CAS does not work, then we will move forward,’ he concluded.