The proprietor of Ukrainian soccer membership Shakhtar Donetsk has donated greater than $200,000 to skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych. The athlete was disqualified from the Milano Cortina Winter Video games earlier than competing over the usage of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed within the conflict with Russia, the membership mentioned on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old Heraskevych was disqualified final week when the Worldwide Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation jury dominated that imagery on the helmet — depicting athletes killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 — breached guidelines on athletes’ expression on the Video games.
He then misplaced an attraction on the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport hours earlier than the ultimate two runs of his competitors, having missed the primary two runs on account of his disqualification.
Heraskevych had been allowed to coach with the helmet that displayed the faces of 24 useless Ukrainian athletes for a number of days in Cortina d’Ampezzo the place the sliding centre is however the Worldwide Olympic Committee then warned him a day earlier than his competitors began that he couldn’t put on it there.
“Vlad Heraskevych was denied the chance to compete for victory on the Olympic Video games, but he returns to Ukraine a real winner,” Shakhtar president, Rinat Akhmetov, mentioned in a membership assertion.
“The respect and delight he has earned amongst Ukrainians via his actions are the very best reward. On the similar time, I would like him to have sufficient power and sources to proceed his sporting profession, in addition to to combat for reality, freedom and the remembrance of those that gave their lives for Ukraine.”
The quantity is the same as the prize cash Ukraine pays athletes who win a gold medal on the Video games.
The case dominated headlines early on on the Olympics, with IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, assembly Heraskevych on Thursday morning on the sliding venue in a failed last-minute try to dealer a compromise.
The IOC advised he put on a black armband and show the helmet earlier than and after the race, however mentioned utilizing it in competitors breached guidelines on protecting politics off fields of play.
Heraskevych additionally earned reward from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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