Ukrainian figure skater Kyrylo Marsak was exhausted last summer as he trained for the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics. Drained, anxious and often unable to sleep, the 21-year-old could not stop thinking about his family back in Ukraine: His father is in the army on the front lines and his mother is in Kyiv,

Ukraine's Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi believes the decision to disqualify Vladyslav Heraskevych from his skeleton event at the Milano Cortina Games was unjust but told Reuters there was no question of his team pulling out of the Olympics.

A Ukrainian skeleton racer has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics over his “helmet of remembrance."

The International Olympic Committee has refused Ukrainian journalists' request to remove Russian citizen Olga Laeva from the role of media manager at the biathlon venue in Antholz-Anterselva for the Olympic Games 2026.

Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Olympic skeleton competition on Thursday over his "helmet of remembrance" depicting athletes killed since Russia's invasion despite a last-minute appeal from a tearful IOC president.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was excluded from the Olympics after refusing to give up his plan to race in a helmet commemorating athletes who have been killed since Russia invaded his country.