Vladyslav Heraskevych will retain his accreditation at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the IOC reports. The Ukrainian skeleton racer will remain at the Games despite being banned from competing over the “helmet of remembrance” controversy.
  • ol_capt_joe@piefed.eeEnglish
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    2 天前

    Bro did his country proud ✊

    ‘helmet featuring portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed during the war’ …now, that is respectful. It’s only political in a way that if you’re punishing people for it then you’re the baddies.

    If it had instead been a helmet featuring Calvin pissing on 1mil+ dead Russian soldiers, then there would be room to criticize (on behalf of Bill Watterson, of course)