Skeleton player of the Ukrainian national team Vladislav Geraskevich, who was disqualified from the 2026 Winter Olympics with a scandal, called on the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Kirsty Coventry to leave her post.

" Because with the scandal that the IOC created, they paid a lot of attention to the athletes who participated in the competitions, this scandal greatly influenced the value of the Olympic movement.

And Miss Coventry and not only her are to blame for this, because the whole chain of people was involved. Coventry’s speech at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games should be her last in this position,” Suspilne Sport quotes Geraskevich as saying..

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The athlete’s main message was the phrase that “the IOC is on the wrong side of history”. Vladislav is sure that this is so:.

" It was precisely this that Thomas Bach used when justifying the return of Russian athletes. He said " And we see that the IOC is now not on the right side of history, and the Olympic Games have been actively used in Russian propaganda, which contributes to the murder of people - we see this with the Russian flags in the stands. This is the opposite of what Olympic values \u200b\u200bstand for."

Let us remind you that Vladislav Geraskevich began wearing a “memory helmet” from the training races of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, on which there are photos of athletes killed by Russia.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned him from using this helmet, and before the official start, he was disqualified from the skeleton..

Geraskevich, with the support of lawyers, filed an appeal against the IOC decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and the case was considered under an accelerated procedure. As a result, CAS sided with the leadership of Olympic sports and upheld the disqualification.

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Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian team completed the 2026 Winter Olympics without medals.