Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Geraskevich announced that he plans to perform in a “memory helmet” on the competition day.

" My plan is to wear this helmet during all training sessions as well as on race day.. If this is the attitude towards me, it should be the same for everyone. I believe that the IOC does not have so many black armbands to honor the memory of all the dead athletes,” Suspilne Sport quotes Geraskevich as saying..

Let us remind you that yesterday, February 9, Geraskevich went to official training for the first time wearing a helmet, on which photographs of athletes who died as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were printed in black and white..

After this, it became known that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for Geraskevich to compete in this helmet, and proposed to replace it with the use of a black bandage or ribbon without personalization.

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Earlier it became known that Geraskevich, after the IOC ban, again went to training in a “memory helmet”.