The IOC said it had offered Vladyslav Heraskevych other options instead of wearing a banned helmet, which depicts athletes killed in the war in Ukraine. He refused, arguing that the IOC decision 'plays along with Russian propaganda.'

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…