The Olympics and politics often mix and here's some competitors who were punished for it.

Vladysav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian skeleton racer disqualified from over his remembrance helmet, has received his country's ...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has continued to put pressure on Ukrainian athletes competing at the 2026 Olympic ...

The five Ukrainian athletes who took part in the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony in Milan were led out by an Italian-based Russian volunteer who disagrees with her country’s invasion of their ...

By Julien Pretot, Mitch Phillips and Karolos Grohmann CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Vladyslav ...

The IOC says an Olympian skeleton athlete from Ukraine cannot race in a helmet honoring athletes killed in war. Here's why.

Following are political incidents or protests that have led to the disqualification of athletes from the Olympic Games: ...

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has lost his bid to overturn an Olympic disqualification over his helmet ...

Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych said on Monday a helmet he has used in training at the Milano Cortina Games ...

Vladyslav Heraskevych said the decision "plays along with Russia’s narrative” and accused the IOC of betraying the memory of ...

MILAN (AP) — Anastasia Kucherova, a Russian living in Milan, voiced her opposition to Russia’s war against Ukraine with a highly symbolic, if at first anonymous, act: Carrying the Ukraine team placard ...