Heraskevych shared another message on X after his ban that said he "never wanted a scandal with the IOC," requesting that the IOC lift the ban of the helmet, apologize for the "pressure that has been put on me over the past few days," and "provide electric generators for Ukrainian sports facilities that are suffering from daily shellings."

Disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has appealed his Winter Olympics competition ban over a helmet depicting dead Ukrainian athletes with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CA...

Heraskevych insisted he would continue to wear the helmet, which carries pictures of Ukrainian sportsmen and women killed since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, during the men's skeleton heats ...