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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – CORTINA D’Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Milan Cortina Games after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to use a helmet other than the one that honors athletes…

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender at the Milan Cortina Games, was barred from racing Thursday after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee…

Ukraine’s skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Games…

Keep politics out of sport! Oh, that hoary old chestnut. It’s been tried a thousand times and it’s never worked before.

This emptiest of catchphrases returned to the foreground today as Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was…

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, was barred from racing on Thursday after refusing a last-minute plea from the…

Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych can stay at the Milan/Cortina Olympics after all after he was originally stripped of his accreditation in connection with being barred from the skeleton competition over a helmet dispute.

The International Olympic…

MILAN — The International Olympic Committee may well disqualify Vladyslav Heraskevych for ignoring its warning not to wear a helmet commemorating 24 of the more than 500 Ukrainian athletes who’ve lost their lives in the face of a Russian…