"I believe they deserve to be with me on competition day," Heraskevych told an outdoor press conference by the Olympic rings in Cortina on Tuesday.

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has trained the Winter Olympics in a helmet with images of compatriots killed during the war in his country

Ukranian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych claims the IOC has banned his helmet featuring images of people killed in the war in his home country, in a decision that "breaks my…